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

It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have. – B. Earl Puckett, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. – Marshall McLuhan, introduction to Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Med

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, But Will It Sell?, 1964