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

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.

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.

Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.

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

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

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.