ADVERTISING QUOTES
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"Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness."
-- John Arbuthnot Fisher

A vast sector of modern advertising . . . does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually."
-- Erich Fromm

"Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats."
-- Northrop Frye

"If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time!"
-- Jules Henry

"Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising."
-- John Lahr

"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
-- Christopher Lasch

"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
-- Stephen Butler Leacock

"Advertising is the art and sole of capitalism. It captures a moment of time through the lens of commerce, reflecting and affecting our lives, making us laugh and cry, while simultaneously giving traction to the engine that propels this free market economy forward into the future."
-- Jef I. Richards

"Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem . . . ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress."
-- Daniel Starch, The Principles of Advertising, 1923.

"Advertising is a tax for having an unremarkable product."
-- Robert Stephens

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