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

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.

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.

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.

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

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

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

It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong.

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.

Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

Yeah, I've had an odd youth, But I wouldn't know the difference if I'd lived it any other way. And I wouldn't change any of it because I quite like what I'm doing.

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."

Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.