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Unknown Author (top)
Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.
- Unknown Author


Leonard Bernstein (top)
The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
- Leonard Bernstein


Erma Bombeck (top)
In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV.
- Erma Bombeck


Norman Douglas (top)
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
- Norman Douglas


John Fischer (top)
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
- John Fischer


Nicholas Johnson (top)
It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.
- Nicholas Johnson


Samuel Johnson (top)
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick.
- Samuel Johnson


Louis Kronenberger (top)
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
- Louis Kronenberger


Stephen Butler Leacock (top)
Advertising may be described as the science of stopping human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Butler Leacock


Marya Mannes (top)
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.
- Marya Mannes


Marshall McLuhan (top)
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
- Marshall McLuhan


Malcolm Muggeridge (top)
History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."
- Malcolm Muggeridge


George Orwell (top)
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
- George Orwell


J.B. Priestley (top)
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
- J.B. Priestley


Will Rogers (top)
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
- Will Rogers


Edgar A. Shoaff (top)
Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.
- Edgar A. Shoaff


George Will (top)
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
- George Will