advertising on Propaganda

Advertising as we now know it started not on Madison Avenue but in another city: Berlin. With another group of power brokers: the Nazis. They took the ideas of an Austrian psychotherapist named Freud,...

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society const...

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

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

“Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising,” announced Lord Peter sententiously, “is like leaven, w...

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

In this post-truth world, any marketing BS seems tolerable.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer. And so, the balance of business expenditures shifts from product research to market research...

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.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commo...

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

...You are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, therefore, don’t flatter your adult agency, or even ignore it—they supplant it.

Advertising is literally an attempt to monetize our restlessness.

We are surrounded by hundreds, thousands of messages every day that link our deepest emotions to products that objectify people and trivialize our most heartfelt moments and relationships. Every emoti...

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.

Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.”

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Brands are the new religion.

“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

The influence of the familiar on our lives is something that advertisers never forget. The point of advertising is to capitalize on real needs or to create needs and then to provide a product to fill ...

Advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a community than the editorial columns are.