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

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.

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

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

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 comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.

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.