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Quotes from Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion — Randal Marlin

1938–2026

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

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

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

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

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

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

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

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

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

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

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

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.

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Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

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

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

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

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

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.

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

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

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

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

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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.

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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.

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

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.

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

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.

Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Randal Marlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.