Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality..

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility..

The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, ….

If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve..

Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into ….

When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others..

The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia..

Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comp….

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is com….

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning..

It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and….

Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader..

We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthe….

Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions..

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity..

To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to ….

When we consider propaganda as the attempt to shape the thoughts and feelings of others, in ways conforming to the aims of the communicator, we find ….

The best goal for propaganda analysis is to develop such an understanding of the phenomenon that it will no longer be profitable for people to engage….

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessar….

In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating..

When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated..