Advertising Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Advertising is a non-moral force, like electricity, which not only illuminates but electrocutes. Its worth to civilization depends upon how it is used.

— J Walter Thompson

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with…

— Banksy

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

— Anonymous

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves -…

— Jaron Lanier

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed…

— Jaron Lanier

“At the start of the twenty-first century, the advertising industry is guiding one of history's most massive stealth efforts in social profiling.”

— Joseph Turow

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

— Allen Klein

No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable…

— Christopher Lasch