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Public Quotes by Edward Bernays
- A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product;…
- In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to…
- Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which…
- It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind…
- The counsel on public relations is not an advertising man but he advocates for advertising where that is indicated. Very often he is called in…
- No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the…
- If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not…
- We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be…
- Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or…
- If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will…
- 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…
- The best place to find things: the public library.
- We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who…
- We govern what the public think about.
- Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret…
- The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the…
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.… — Neil Armstrong
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
- The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly… — Charles Babbage
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he… — Charles Babbage
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet