Relations Quotes

Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

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.

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

It is 60 years since the restoration of diplomatic relations, but relations between Japan and Russia have much deeper roots. In all, our diplomatic ties date back 150 years, more than 150 years now.

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

I think that, ultimately, the only thing that affects race relations is fair treatment.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.

Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

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

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

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 think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it's in international relations or how to use technologies.

Things are different in the international relations between states. In this respect, I am neither a friend, nor bride or groom [of the West].

The fashion industry at large has been the worst public relations vehicle for larger women and petite women, they are both maligned and neglected. And I honestly do believe it's getting better.

Republicans have never been good at public relations.

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.

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

The history and our experience shows that Democrats and Republicans think the same way in some cases, and their ideas aren't very different when it comes to international relations.

The diplomatic relations start when the two sides get a bit closer to each other, but U.S and Iran, they are drifting apart.

In many people's many people's minds this is the sole reason Barack Obama was elected. He was elected to fix race relations.

Business is a cobweb of human relationships

A quality such as self-esteem is a result of practicing good human relations.

Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.

The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order.

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some progress, and then there's maybe some slippage.

I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.

I have boxes of pictures that nothing is ever going to happen to. Even Public Relations. I mean, I was going to events long before, and I still am.

I think if we continue to create jobs at levels that I'm creating jobs, I think that's going to have a tremendous impact - positive impact - on race relations.

If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

China always urges that no use or threat of sanctions should be allowed in international relations.

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

I sense that what you two [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] share is that you each have a public relationship to the Biblical text and a somewhat private relationship to the Biblical text.