Politics is who gets what, when, how.

- Harold Lasswell

So great are the psychological resistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a menacing, murderous …

- Harold Lasswell

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

- Harold Lasswell

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

- Harold Lasswell

The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institut…

- Harold Lasswell