Noam Chomsky Quotes About Advertising

• The point of advertising is to destroy markets.

  Noam Chomsky

  Advertising

• The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics, you learn that markets are systems in which informed consumers make rational choices. That's what's so wonderful about it. But that's the last thing that the state corporate system wants. It is spending huge sums to prevent that.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Choices, Purpose

  Speech at 25th anniversary of the International Relations Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 26, 2005.

• We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, People, Apathy

• Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

  Noam Chomsky

  Pay, Privilege, Advertising

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.301, Soft Skull Press

• A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising.

  Noam Chomsky

  Risk, Cost, Want

  "Noam Chomsky on Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Haiti, Democracy in Latin America and the Israeli Elections". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. April 03, 2006.

• So the first things that you see when you look up something on Google could be dependent on the amount of advertising or something else. Since it is a profit making institution, it is going to reflect the interests and concerns of those who fund it, which is advertisers.

  Noam Chomsky

  Google, Looks, Firsts

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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