Advertisements Quote by Michael Schudson

Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion.

— Lisa Miller

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

— Donnie Wahlberg

American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The…

— Eugene H. Peterson

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

Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.

— John O'Donohue

There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of…

— Neil Gaiman

We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it…

— Paul Arden

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

— Ann Bridge

Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our…

— Iris Smyles

“Appealing to our subconscious emotions rather than our conscious intellects, advertisements are designed to exploit the discontentments fostered by the American dream, the constant…

— Sonia Maasik

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

— Leo Burnett

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

— Florence King