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

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.

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.

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

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 life of trade.

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.

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

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.