Advertisement Quotes

“Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.”

“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”

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

“Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement.”

“Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.”

“Nothing is taken at face value anymore, everything must be dissected. Perhaps it is the rise of advertisement over church and state. Things once spoken were spoken with strength and authority. Now they are spoken with stealth and with guile. They are spoken not to the rational mind but to the sub-conscious, the mind within the mind.”

“The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.”

“Connecting to the outernet was less of a shock this time, as the monitor gave him a sense of distance from it, but it was still annoying. How did these people live with such a system, stalked by advertisements and "free" offers and icons that would take you to another site, unasked-for, the moment you gave them your attention? It was like wending your way through an obstacle course. Perhaps after a while you just learned to tune it all out... or perhaps you could buy programs that did it for you. He would have to design himself one of those before he did any more real work on the outernet, though he suspected that the consumer programs which were stalking him were capable of adapting to anything he could turn out quickly.Advertising: the ultimate predator. He longed for the simplicity of the Gueran network, which simply did what it was supposed to and no more. When had these people lost touch with the fact that the purpose of a network was to facilitate communication, not impede it?”

“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”