Advertising Quote by Marston Bates

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

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises,…

— Samuel Johnson

The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices,…

— Paul Baran

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

— Ann Bridge

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

— Leo Burnett

“The advertising industry's prime task is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories that are based on just the…

— Noam Chomsky

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

In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what…

— Walter Lippmann

“Advertising is profoundly manipulative at its core. Its imagery strives to deprive us of realistic ideas about love, sex, beauty, health, money, work, and…

— Jennifer L. Pozner

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a…

— Ann Bridge

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

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

— Anonymous