"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 goal."

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Source : Edward L. Bernays (2013). “Public Relations”, p.159, University of Oklahoma Press

Edward Bernays

#Engineering Quotes #Organization Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Leadership is not for the faint of heart”
“In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it. ... The frank realization that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.”
“It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.”

Source : Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”
“Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.”
“The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.”
“God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations (Belgium and Serbia) were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.”
“Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturÃ¦ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.”
“if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself”

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