Relations Quotes

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations. View quote
John Tyler
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it. View quote
George Soros
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. View quote
George Boole
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
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 means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed. View quote
Edward Bernays
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. View quote
Denis Diderot
I don't suppose that applies so much to other physicists; I think it's a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations which maybe don't have any physical meaning at all. Sometimes they do. View quote
Paul Dirac
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. (Anton Chekhov)
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. View quote
Charles Dickens
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. View quote
Karl Marx
Knavery and flattery are blood relations. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and religion. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one." View quote
Honoré de Balzac
A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations. View quote
Jasmine Guy
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. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Of course, we also are soberly aware that historical problems remain in cross-strait relations, and that there will be issues in the future that will require time, patience and joint efforts to resolve. View quote
Xi Jinping
The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space. (Piet Mondrian)
Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
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. View quote
Václav Havel
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
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