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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human
impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches
out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

—Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher, futurist, and communications theorist (from his book
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964)

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that
of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

—Leo Burnett, founder of Leo Burnett Worldwide ad agency

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.

—Malcolm Muggeridge, journalist and broadcaster (quoted in the book The Want Makers: Inside
the World of Advertising, 1988)

I think that I shall never see/A billboard lovely as a tree/Perhaps, unless the
billboards fall/I’ll never see a tree at all.

—Ogden Nash, poet (from his poem “Song of the Open Road,” published in The New Yorker,
October 15, 1932)