Randal Marlin Quotes

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

Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example.

Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support.

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.

Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.

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.

When we consider propaganda as the attempt to shape the thoughts and feelings of others, in ways conforming to the aims of the communicator, we find a vast array of different examples throughout history.

The specific media my change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.

The best goal for propaganda analysis is to develop such an understanding of the phenomenon that it will no longer be profitable for people to engage in it.

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

If you can show that something is to a person's advantage, they have an attractive reason for doing that thing.

The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

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