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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.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

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

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

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.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

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 an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.