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Advertising is the life of trade.

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.

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

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good.

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

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

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.