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"Our
society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation:
youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness."
-- John Arbuthnot Fisher
A
vast sector of modern advertising . . . does not appeal to reason but to emotion;
like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally
and then make them submit intellectually."
-- Erich Fromm
"Advertising
- a judicious mixture of flattery and threats."
-- Northrop Frye
"If
advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into
the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere
intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social
revoluation in our time!"
-- Jules Henry
"Society
drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising."
-- John Lahr
"It
is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality
in the mass media."
-- Christopher Lasch
"Advertising
may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough
to get money from it."
-- Stephen Butler Leacock
"Advertising
is the art and sole of capitalism. It captures a moment of time through the lens
of commerce, reflecting and affecting our lives, making us laugh and cry, while
simultaneously giving traction to the engine that propels this free market economy
forward into the future."
-- Jef I. Richards
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"If advertisers spent the
same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then
they wouldn't have to advertise them."
-- Will
Rogers "Advertising
is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they
don't need."
-- Will
Rogers |
"Advertising
as the printed form of selling would seem . . . ultimately to be justified in
so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency
of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant
to social progress."
-- Daniel Starch, The Principles of Advertising, 1923.
"Advertising
is a tax for having an unremarkable product."
-- Robert Stephens
Workers
Day
- May 1
Fair
Trade Day - 2nd Sat in May
End
Poverty Day - October 17
Buy
Nothing Day - 4th Fri in November
