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

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.

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

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

In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.

To love beauty is to see light.

I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

It's a never-ending process to try to make yourself the best person you possibly can.

The last thing you want to do is shoot 80 wearing 'tartan troosers'.

Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.

At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

Success isn't something that occurs. Success is something that you create