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

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.

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

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.

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