Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.
Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?'
If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.
Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will help us satisfy them.