There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

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

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support.

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 in it.

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

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