Human stupidity Quote by Joseph Maelane

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

— Stephen Leacock

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

— Stephen Leacock

The fact is that much of advertising's power comes from this belief that advertising does not affect us. The most effective kind of propaganda…

— Jean Kilbourne

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't…

— Dan Pallotta

Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a…

— Eric Clark

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't…

— David Ogilvy

To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

— James Randolph Adams

The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only…

— Henryk Skolimowski

..intelligent, bright and wiSe pe0ple aRe quiet..but sTupid pe0ple advertise their ign0rance.

— Meggy

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

— Anonymous