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  • 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.

    Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.230, Broadview Press
  • When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.

    Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.153, Broadview Press
  • Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality.

    Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.305, Broadview Press
  • If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.

    War   Eclipse   Policy  
    Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.59, Broadview Press
  • 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.

    Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.284, Broadview Press
  • The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

    Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.153, Broadview Press
  • Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.

    Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.45, Broadview Press
  • Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

    Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.110, Broadview Press
  • The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

    "Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion". Book by Randal Marlin, 1989.
  • 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.

    Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.339, Broadview 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.

    Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.43, Broadview Press
  • There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

    Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.9, Broadview Press
  • 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.

    Goal   Way   Belief  
    Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.99, Broadview Press
  • There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.

    Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.170, Broadview Press
  • There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

    Lying   Way   Language  
    Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.106, Broadview Press
  • 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.

    Revenge   Party   Mean  
    Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.159, Broadview Press
  • 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.

    Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.14, Broadview Press
  • In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

    Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.118, Broadview Press
  • Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.

    Names   People   Towns  
    Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.43, Broadview Press
  • 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.

    Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.30, Broadview Press
  • 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.

    Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.219, Broadview Press
  • 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.

    Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.39, Broadview 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.

    Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.13, Broadview Press
  • 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.

    Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.176, Broadview Press
  • Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.

    Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.91, Broadview Press
  • When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.

    Jobs   Looks   Asking  
    Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.302, Broadview Press
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