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, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. – Stephen Butler Leacock, quoted in Michael Jackman, Crown’s Book of Politic

And there is no question but that you can’t sustain a mood, a dramatic mood of any particular kind, when at the end of the climactic moment of the scene, out come a couple of dancing rabbits with toilet paper. – Rod Serling, quoted in Teaching Literature to Adolescents: Plays by Alan B. Howe

As advertising blather becomes the nation’s normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. – George Will, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twe