Quotes by advertising

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  Stephen Leacock
  

  

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

  

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  Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher 1863 - 1952

  

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  Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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  George F. Will
  American columnist 1941-

  

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  As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
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  Pauline Kael
  American film critic

  

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  In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
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  Louis Kronenberger
  American literary critic and novelist 1904-1980

  

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  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.
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  Booker T. Washington
  American Black Leader and Educator 1856-1915

  

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  There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
  Source: My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
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  C. P. Snow
  English novelist 1905-1980

  

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  Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
  Source: Speaking in a debate broadcast by the BBC in 1936
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  Sinclair Lewis
  American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright 1885-1951

  

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  Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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  H.G. Wells
  British-born American author 1866-1946

  

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  Advertising is legalized lying.
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  Marshall Mcluhan
  Canadian professor and philosopher 1911-1980

  

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  Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
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  Bruce Barton
  American Author, Advertising Executive 1886-1967

  

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  Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
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  Calvin Coolidge
  American president 1872-1933

  

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  Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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  Bryce Courtenay
  South African-Australian advertising director and novelist 1933-2012

  

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  Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.
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  Bob Dylan
  American musician 1941-

  

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  Advertising signs that con you into thinking you are the one
  That can do what's never been done,
  That can win what's never been won
  Meanwhile, life outside goes on all around you
  Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)