Advertising is legalized lying.
Advertising is legalized lying.
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H.G. Wells
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- An advertising agency is 85% confusion and 15% commission. - View Quote Details on An advertising agency is 85% confusion and 15% commission.
- From any cross-section of ads, the general advertiser’s attitude would seem to be: if you are a lousy, smelly, idle, underpriveleged and oversexed status-seeking neurotic moron, give me your money. - View Quote Details on From any cross-section of ads, the general advertiser’s attitude would…
- The Federal Radio Commission has interpreted the concept of public interest so as to favor in actual practice one particular group… the commercial broadcasters. - View Quote Details on The Federal Radio Commission has interpreted the concept of public…
- Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is I don’t know which half. - View Quote Details on Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and…
- It is sometimes argued that advertising really does little harm because no one believes it any more anyway. We consider this view to be erroneous. The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices, their artistic skills to purposes in which they themselves do not believe, and that it teaches [in the words of Leo Marx] ‘the essential meaninglessness of all creations of the mind: words, images, and ideas.’ The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man. - View Quote Details on It is sometimes argued that advertising really does little harm…
- It is never silent, it drowns out all other voices, and it suffers no rebuke, for is it not the voice of America? [...]
It has taught us how to live, what to be afraid of, how to be beautiful, how to be loved, how to be envied, how to be successful. [...]
Is it any wonder that the American population tends increasingly to speak, think, feel in terms of this jabberwocky? That the stimuli of art, science, religion are progressively expelled to the periphery of American life to become marginal values, cultivated by marginal people on marginal time? - View Quote Details on It is never silent, it drowns out all other voices,… - Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. - View Quote Details on Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The…
- Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. - View Quote Details on Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
- Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. - View Quote Details on Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill…
- In the Popular Media world of today over eating is dangerous, under eating is self-destructing and those who do neither simply complain that we see too much of both. - View Quote Details on In the Popular Media world of today over eating is…
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