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The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the…

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Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those…
The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the…
In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.
A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks…
I believe that competition in the future will not be only an advertising competition between individual products or between big associations, but…
In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may…
The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery…
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This…
Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there…
The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education…
Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on…

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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is… — John Berger
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift… — Ambrose Bierce
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. — Lucretius
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the… — Benjamin Rush
The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for… — Bartolome de las Casas
A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their… — Kevin Mattson
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some… — Richard Dawkins
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without… — Harry S. Truman
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places.… — Gautama Buddha
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your… — Socrates
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? — Gilbert Highet
Gold is a deep-persuading orator. — Richard Barnfield

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