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

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.

If I had known how good cooked meat tastes, I would have breathed my fire on all those pigs before I ate them.

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

I'm afraid the President election is going to be rigged. I have to be honest.

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.”

Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has got to be a key part of it.