Publicity is the act of gaining attention or recognition for something, such as a product, event, or person. Quotes about publicity often highlight its power and impact. They emphasize how publicity can make or break a reputation, how it can shape public opinion, and how it can drive success or failure. These quotes also underscore the importance of strategic planning and careful execution when it comes to publicizing something, as well as the need to be mindful of the potential consequences and long-term effects of publicity.
Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. — Joseph Pulitzer
Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any. — Jane Russell
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. — Louis D. Brandeis
Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless. — Adolph Ochs
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. — George Orwell
Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations. — George Orwell
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. — Leo Burnett
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. — Mark Twain
Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash. — Aubrey Beardsley
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. — Marshall McLuhan
We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. — Will Rogers
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens. — Alvin Adams
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct. — Bill James
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. — Winston Churchill
People who complain in private want an answer. People who complain in public want an audience.
The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks. — Theresa May
Academic success depends on research and publications. — Philip Zimbardo
Be the same person privately, publicly and personally.
The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men. — Samuel Adams
Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private. — Joyce Meyer
I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public. — George Lucas
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. — Oscar Wilde
The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors. — Anthony Giddens
Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings. — Quintus Tullius Cicero
No diet will remove all the fat from your body, becayse the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy. — Trent Lott
Education is a system of imposed ignorance. — Noam Chomsky
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants. — Louis D. Brandeis
Let us not be a society where honest in public equals weird.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public. — Noam Chomsky
Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent every year to control the public mind.
Cheap Publicity Quotes
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. — Linus Torvalds
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. — Walter Cronkite
Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health. — Michael Pollan
A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap grain policy of this nation and has made the beef cartel the biggest hog at the trough. — Howard Lyman
The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes. — Edmund Wilson
Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are. — Rainer Maria Rilke
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public. — Clay Shirky
Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message. — John Hench
But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, "deficit-financed government spending," and "the animal spirits of the spendthrift in the service of boosting "consumption demand"... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature? — Ilana Mercer
Bad Publicity Is Good Publicity Quotes
We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement. — Henry Clay
The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring. — Paul Rand
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. — James Bovard
A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them....Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions. — Dianne Feinstein
There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it. — Hunter S. Thompson
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. — William Gibson
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description. — William Gibson
Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad. — William Shatner
Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it and argue it and be argued with about it in public forums. But that's not what academic freedom is about. That's not what the classroom is about. — Joan Wallach Scott
I never know if my picture is a good picture or a bad picture, because I'm not making pictures thinking of the public, I'm making pictures to realize myself. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
School Publicity Quotes
Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color a picture of Noah's ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies that they are being told? — Paul Washer
If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them. — Benjamin Rush
Lucifer is God in the public school system — Vinnie Paz
In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program. — Donnie Wahlberg
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so? — Diane Ravitch
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools. — Andrew Cuomo
My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. — Roger Bannister
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries. — Arthur Ashe
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. — Baruch Spinoza
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. — Mary Antin
Bad Publicity Quotes
If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away. — Ned Kelly
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals. — Mark Twain
The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals — Chrissie Hynde
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. — Oscar Wilde
The total impact of the Tory/Liberal tax, welfare and public spending changes has hit the poorest 10% in society disproportionately hard - and women have been affected even more badly than men. — Nicola Sturgeon
Public speaking is only bad if your clothes don’t fit correctly. — Isaac Mashman
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. — Mackenzie King
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
I want a bad boy in public, and a pussy cat at home! — Christina Aguilera
Self Publicity Quotes
It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown. — Charles Grandison Finney
My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear. — Harry Houdini
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers. — Merlin Olsen
Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen. — Tucker Carlson
He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention — Adam Smith
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. — Cyril Connolly
It's so easy for anyone to be like, 'Logan Paul just ended his career. He's done.' But the only person who will ever decide whether that's true is me. Like, if I sleep for the rest of my life, maybe. — Logan Paul
I don't need a coach to tell me what to say. I need a coach to figure out what kind of shirt to wear and how to look at the camera and how to avoid, you know, picking your nose on camera. — Michael Saylor
I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world. — Chris Kraus
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest; Don't wash your dirty linen in public. — Icelandic Proverbs
Movie Publicity Quotes
A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage. — Ken Loach
I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like, 'God! I'm on a billboard!' It doesn't hit all at once, it kind of unravels itself and it's still unraveling. — Chris Evans
The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored. The disease of our age is this boredom and a good photographer must successfully combat it. The only way to do this is by invention - by surprise. — Alexey Brodovitch
I'm very low-key. I don't really blend in, so it's difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it's a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home. — Dwayne Johnson
The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism. — Hedda Hopper
Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judging from the record of this case, not very violent compared to what is available to children on television and in movie theaters today. — Richard Posner
I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere. — Muhammad Ali
The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie - but only if she is paid the minimum wage. — Irving Kristol
Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking. — Jeff Goodell
Negative Publicity Quotes
The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that
it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions
are positive rather than negative. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. — Salman Rushdie
Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity. — Michael O'Leary
I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. — Newt Gingrich
You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative. — Drake
Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private. — Charles Colson
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative. — Susie Orbach
The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities. — Karl Marx
It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads. — Scott McCallum
Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right. — John Hickenlooper
Good Publicity Quotes
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest — Winston Churchill
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. — George Bernard Shaw
By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. — Adam Smith
We're having too good a time today. We ain't thinking about tomorrow. — John Dillinger
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. — Robert Anton Wilson
We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism. — Jodi Rell
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. — Paul Wellstone
A sound eco-environment is the most basic public good that benefits all. — Xi Jinping
Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it. — Cardinal Richelieu
The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed — Anita Roddick
Public Relations Quotes
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 pull the wires which control the public mind. — Edward Bernays
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. — Daniel J. Boorstin
But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects. — Kenichi Fukui
My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life. — Tucker Carlson
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. — Edward Bernays
The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise. — Pat Tillman
I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea. — Anthony Holden
No matter to what degree China opens up to the outside world and admits foreign capital, its relative magnitude will be small and it can't affect our system of socialist public ownership of the means of production. — Deng Xiaoping
You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists. — Robert Crumb
The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality. — Stuart Ewen
Public Eye Quotes
Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to their capacity and without other distinctions besides those of their virtues and talents. — Olympe de Gouges
Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far. — Nicola Sturgeon
We Jews have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we promote both sides of the issue as confusion reigns. With their eye's fixed on the issues, they fail to see who is behind every scene. We Jews toy with the American public as a cat toys with a mouse. — Harold Wallace Rosenthal
The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller. — P. T. Barnum
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I feel that if you're in the public eye in any way that you do have a little bit of influence on people. — Mike Ness
It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the miracle of seeing these puzzling patches suddenly fall into one place and come to life before our eyes. — Ernst Gombrich
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. — Aaliyah
A lot of the public responses are based on the prejudices and ignorance, they've been inherited from previous generations. California has always been a multicultural state, but the thing is, you've got to open your eyes and people in general need to get over their own prejudices. — Luis Valdez
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street. — Gavin Newsom
Public Image Quotes
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. — Marlene Dietrich
Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image. — Nicola Sturgeon
It would be very silly of me to alienate basically half of America. — MrBeast
You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing. — Christopher Walken
The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life. — Lucy Hale
To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and outcomes, not cosmetic images and airy promises. But that is not what the public demands. — Eric Alterman
An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla. — Robert Heinecken
My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am. — Mario Balotelli
Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust. — Richard Branson
There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me. — Jimmy Carter
No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business. — John F. Kennedy
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years. — Mark Twain
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him. — Al-Shafi‘i
I'm here to impress only one man. He don't live here with us. He's on top. So that's all I'm concerned about. My work is not for the public or for man to view or make judgment on me, I work for one person. — Snoop Dogg
Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass. — Jonathan Gruber
An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service. — Harry S. Truman
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public. — Booker T. Washington
I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty. — Merle Haggard
Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. — Taylor Caldwell
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. — Alexander Graham Bell
If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws. — Noah Webster
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Dogs are animals that poop in public and you're supposed to pick it up. After a week of doing this, you've got to ask yourself, "Who's the real master in this relationship?" — Anthony Griffin
In Conclusion
Publicity quotes also recognize that the public's perception is crucial in determining the outcome of any endeavor. They emphasize the significance of maintaining a positive image and being aware of how actions can be interpreted by others. These quotes often inspire individuals and organizations to approach publicity with caution, as they understand that it can be a double-edged sword. Ultimately, quotes about publicity serve as reminders to be mindful of the impact and influence that public perception can have on success and reputation.
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