Advertising Quotes

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,…
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - View Quote Details on Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the…
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…
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…
Advertising is legalized lying. - View Quote Details on Advertising is legalized lying.
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. - View Quote Details on Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
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…
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. - View Quote Details on Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. - View Quote Details on The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials,…
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…
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. - View Quote Details on Many a small thing has been made large by the…
The sponsor may be viewed as a potentate with a strong influence over currents of thought in our society, exercised mainly through television [...] It has tended to displace or overwhelm other influences such as newspapers, school, church, grandpa, grandma. It has become the definer and transmitter of society’s values. - View Quote Details on The sponsor may be viewed as a potentate with a…
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. - View Quote Details on Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. - View Quote Details on Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the…
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. - View Quote Details on Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is…
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…
I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. - View Quote Details on I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you…
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…
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people’s lives. And you know, most people’s fantasies are pretty sad. - View Quote Details on Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people’s…