Quotes: advertising
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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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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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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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As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
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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 -
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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
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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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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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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 youSource: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
