Advertising Effects Quotes

Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.

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

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics, you learn that markets are systems in which informed consumers make rational choices. That's what's so wonderful about it. But that's the last thing that the state corporate system wants. It is spending huge sums to prevent that.

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

Sad to say, negative advertising really works.