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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.

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 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.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.