Quotes by Randal Marlin

Randal Marlin

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.

Class

Doors

Expression

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.

Communication

Eras

Gutenberg

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.

Character

Emotional

Writing

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

Action

Democracies Have

Democracy

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

Exposure

Propagandist

Would Be

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

Eclipse

Policy

War

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.

Belief

Goal

Way

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

Numbers

Policy Making

Sound

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

Information

Littles

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.

Democratic Ideals

Exercise

Lips

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Accountability

Action

Asking

Belief

Benefits

Character

Choices

Class

Common

Communication

Creating

Democracies Have

Democracy

Democratic Ideals

Different

Doors

Eclipse

Emotional

Eras

Ethical Questions

Example

Exercise

Exposure

Expression

Feelings

Foundation

Giving

Goal

Government

Gutenberg

Human Nature

Information

Jobs

Language

Liars

Lips

Littles

Looks

Lying

Maintenance

Mean

Media

Mistake

Names

Numbers

Party

People

Persuasion

Philosopher

Plato

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Quotes by Randal Marlin

Randal Marlin

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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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