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

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.

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.

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

Is there any reward?I'm beginning to doubt it.I am broken and bored, Is there any rewardReassure me, Good Lord, And inform me about it.Is there any reward?I'm beginning to doubt it.

They’d have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they’d been scared silly that they might find that child dead.

The air is full of flying kisses sent by the people who are watching you.

I had a dream about you. The sky was green and the ground was blue. You spoke a song and I sang my thoughts. We ate lemonade and drank cookies. It all made perfect sense.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life for any vital democracy.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

I've got plenty of money, more money than I ever dreamed I would have. But I am not a billionaire.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.