Top 15 Randal Marlin Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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