Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.
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.
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.
If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.
Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.