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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
NORMAN DOUGLAS, South Wind
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
MARK TWAIN, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising; but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell.
BRUCE FAIRCHILD BARTON, The Man Nobody Knows
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.
GEORGE ORWELL, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN, Advertising Age, Sep. 3, 1976
In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.
The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics, you learn that markets are systems in which informed consumers make rational choices. That's what's so wonderful about it. But that's the last thing that the state corporate system wants. It is spending huge sums to prevent that.
NOAM CHOMSKY, speech, Jan. 26, 2005
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn’t meant.
BRENDA UELAND, If You Want to Write
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
FRED ALLEN, Treadmill to Oblivion
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
JOHN LAHR, The Guardian, Aug. 1989
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, letter to his daughter, Aug. 24, 1940
Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN, Understanding Media
Google never did any advertising. They're like dealers; they sell the stuff, but they know better than to use it themselves.
PAUL GRAHAM, "How to Start a Startup"
I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.
ERROL MORRIS, Boards Magazine, Aug. 1, 2000
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