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

People Ifs Remember Names Towns Assuming Small Town

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“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.”

Should Today Action Past Winning Easy Powerful Mistake Support Trouble Information Majority Indifference Minorities Manipulate Citizenry

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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.”

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“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.”

Needs Asks Exercise Ideals Democratic Lips Propaganda Consistent Lip Service Democratic Ideals

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

Humans Principles Media Human Nature Constant

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“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.”

Political Demand Complexes Profit Ethical Efficiency Maintenance Political Power Profit Maximization Ethical Questions

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“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.”

Way Different Feelings Example Shapes Aim Propaganda Conform Thoughts And Feelings Communicators

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

Action Democracy Luminous Present Day Democracies Have Pretext

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“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.”

Writing Kind Character Use Three Audience Example Emotional Argument Speakers Persuasion Three Things Ethos Logos Pathos Receptivity Personal Character

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

Ifs War Policy Eclipse

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

Would Be Exposure Propagandist

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“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.”

Way Kind Belief Goal Majors Propagandist

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

Way Used Lying Language Audience Obvious Manipulate

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

Interest Common Notes Philosopher Reasoning Plato Fallacy Plato And Aristotle

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

Sound Numbers Modern Policy Modern Times Policy Making

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

Giving Choices Information Freedom Of Choice

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

Want Lying Foundation Liars Credibility

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“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.”

Mean Different Levels Party Support Groups Modern Democratic Wide Revenge Variety Motive Spoil Democratic Society Booty

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

Tests Method Persuasion Publicity

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“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.”

Giving Littles Form Information Valuable Advertising

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“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.”

People Government Special Materials Judgment Harm Reaching Accountability Restraint

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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.”

Has Beens Made Class Doors Objects Expression Argument Reasoning Exception Restriction Freedom Of Expression

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“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.”

Failing Communication Presses Scales Invention Familiar Eras New Era Gutenberg

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

Looks Jobs Messages Asking Obvious Propaganda

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

World Reality Conflict Creating Technique Propaganda Analysis Exposing Armed Conflict

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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.”

People Understanding Goal Propaganda Analysis Phenomenon Profitable

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Born: 1938
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