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Advertising Quotes


"Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario."


"Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't."


"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."


"Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions."


"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."


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


"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide."


"You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X."


"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."


"Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising."


"I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings."


"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
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