Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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.
The object of advertising is to get people to feel better about the product you're selling.
Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.
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 generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.
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.
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