If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.
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.
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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.
The world is changing... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side, let's take the side of the consumer.
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.