In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

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.

All life is a rhythm, ” she said as I sat up. “All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before liferesumes.

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

For Beatrice, our love broke my heart, and stopped yours.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

I am not pro-abortion any more than I am pro-appendectomy.

Making art is like humour - very moment dependent.

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.