Randal Marlin Quotes

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.

Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.

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

When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.

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.

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.

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

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.

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.

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