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Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. -- John Lahr
Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom. -- David Ogilvy
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. -- David Ogilvy
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. -- Ivan Illich
Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society. -- David Ogilvy
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. -- Kit Williams
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. -- Robert McChesney
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. -- Robert McChesney
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. -- John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke. -- Michel Houellebecq

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