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

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 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.

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

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

Letting go seems like the most powerful thing I could do.And so I do.I just let it all go.And it feels glorious.

Even in silence a heart can scream.

Anytime you're in West Virginia or near it, and you sing, 'Take Me Home, Country Roads, ' it's a sight to behold.

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

John, what are you doing? John, my diet soda. What are you doing?

God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?