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Advertising Quotes


"If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have."


"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."


"The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself."


"Just advertising departments with legs and high heels."


"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."


"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."


"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."


"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."


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


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


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