Advertisements Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“If happiness is determined by expectations, then two pillars of our society – mass media and the advertising industry – may unwittingly be depleting…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness.”

— Suleman Abdullah

“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

I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion…

— Edward Norton

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

Advertisers are happy to see the stuff they've branded out there for free, they don't care about scarcity, they want any message they're invested…

— Astra Taylor

“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

“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

Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable…

— Christopher Lasch

“The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to…

— Emily Post