Advertisements Quote by Samuel Johnson

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

— Samuel Johnson

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

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

— Allen Klein

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the…

— 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

“If ads are about selling things, they are not only about selling things; their images can carry symbolic meanings, transmit messages, and create moods…

— John Jervis

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 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

Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is…

— Claude C. Hopkins

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

“Among the more pleasing by-products of the coming end of advertising is a heretical realization among some industry thinkers: the idea that for advertising…

— Andrew Essex

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

— Michael Schudson