American dream Quote by Sonia Maasik

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

“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

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

Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.

— David Droga

The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant…

— Bruce Barton

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 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

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

— Allen Klein

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which…

— Virginia Postrel

Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its…

— Mark Crispin Miller

A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to…

— Erich Fromm

We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires.

— Daniel J. Boorstin