Harold Lasswell Quotes

Harold Dwight Lasswell was a leading American political scientist and communications theorist. He was a PhD student at the University of Chicago, and he was a professor of law at Yale University.

Birth: February 13, 1902 - Death: December 18, 1978

So great are the psychological resistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a menacing, murderous aggressor. There must be no ambiguity about whom the public is to hate. Guilt and guilelessness must be assessed geographically and all the guilt must be on the other side of the frontier.

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

Topic(s): Mind , Doubt , Atheism

The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.

Topic(s): Values , Social , Atheism

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

Topic(s): Political , Form , Science

Politics is who gets what, when, how.

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Harold Lasswell Quotes