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.

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

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

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 manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.

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

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 commonly accorded.

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