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

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

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 even that little is wrong.

The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.

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

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.