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

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.

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.

Wanting to cry doesn't mean you can.

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

There is only one way to end a self-pity cycle: stop comparing yourself to others and simply follow Christ.

Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.

I turned down a contract with a major network in New York my senior year of college in order to move to Los Angeles and pursue my acting career. But so far it's working out.

I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.