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  Advertising, in its spirit and purpose, is germinal fascism. Hitler was the first European who saw the significance of the techniques of commercial advertising for politics.

  —Matthews / Shallcross

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  In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and ….superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to ….get what it thinks it likes.

  —Walter Lippmann

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  Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit… We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another.

  —US Supreme Court (1970)

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  The "free" distribution of unwelcome or misleading messages to thousands of people is an annoying and sometimes destructive use of the Internet's unprecedented efficiency.

  —Bill Gates (1998)

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  All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us – by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.

  —Kalle Lasn

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  Quote posted by  nickstreet36 14 months 9 days ago

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  Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for nonsmoking areas ten years ago.

  —Kalle Lasn

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  From any cross-section of ads, the general advertiser's attitude would seem to be: if you are a lousy, smelly, idle, underpriveleged and oversexed status-seeking neurotic moron, give me your money.

  —Kenneth Bromfield (1962)

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  It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.

  —B Earl Puckett

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  Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

  —Marya Mannes (1964)

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  Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

  —Anonymous

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