Top 1200 Public Relations Quotes & Sayings

In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.

Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

There is nothing to be known about anything except an initially large, and forever expandable, web of relations to other things. Everything that can serve as a term of relation can be dissolved into another set of relations, and so on for ever. There are, so to speak, relations all the way down, all the way up, and all the way out in every direction: you never reach something which is not just one more nexus of relations.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

Public Relations is the management of communication between an organization and its publics.

But for me, my personal relations, my personal family relations, are very important, and we've always tried to make sure that the public and the private are kept separate.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

I am footballer, not a public relations person.

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.

A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.

Christ at the Checkpoint is primarily a public relations scheme to dissuade American evangelicals from pro-Israel views.

Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through the methods of public relations, and exhibit so little regard for the real thing.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst, industry public relations department, captive think tank academic and so on), you ought to be very skeptical. By design messages from these people are intended to move markets, move merchandise and/or move public policy and are not a comment on the state of the physical universe.

Parliamentarians certainly know how to do bad public relations.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

Always maintain good relations with your public.

American public opinion sees Arabs as terrorists and has the desert-man image about them. I wish the Americans would see Arabs and Muslims the way I see them... but Arabs are losing the public relations battle in the United States.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be "sold" to the public in terms they could understand.

The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor.

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

The formulation of a public relations strategy properly begins with listening, not talking.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.

I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

I have had extremely good relations with the United States and with both parties (Republicans and Democrats), and I hope to continue to have these good relations, which I, again repeating, do not consider to be mutually exclusive with having good relations with Venezuela or Ecuador or whichever country in South America.

The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.

It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.

Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.

I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.

The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with Cuba - this as we're awkwardizing relations with Russia.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics.

Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.

It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored by the law and treated as indifferent by public opinion. It is only through children that relations cease to be a purely private matter.

If Stone Cold was to become champion, as of now, that would be a public-relations corporate nightmare.

In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.

The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

Republicans have never been good at public relations.

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

I think that President [Dwight] Eisenhower was... did the most marvelous job in the war, not really a military job: a public relations job, and it was essential that there should be a public relations job done in the post that he had.

My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.

It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.

I actually, truly do love my family. It's not a public relations exercise.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.