A quote by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks:

 From his book “Morality” :

“Advertising is constantly inflaming our discontents. Advertising is the organised creation of dissatisfaction. Happiness is good for us, but it is bad for business. Hence we have to be induced to see it as always lying around the next corner, immediately after the next product we buy. A consumer society, in short, encourages us to spend money we don’t have, on products we don’t need, for a happiness that won’t last.”

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