Advertisements Quote by Michael Schudson

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 degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

— Anonymous

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

— Bob Filner

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.

— P. T. Barnum

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 about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.

— Anil Ambani

Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too…

— Prince William of Hesse-Kassel

The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence…

— Paul Sweezy

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.

— James Randolph Adams

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

— Samuel Johnson

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and…

— Calvin Coolidge

The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is…

— Marvin E. Frankel