Advertising Quote by William Allen White

“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

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

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed…

— 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

Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their…

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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

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conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant…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

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

— Anil Ambani

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

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

— Frederik Pohl

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