Harold Lasswell famous quotes

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.
-- Harold Lasswell

#Science #Political #Taxidermy

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.
-- Harold Lasswell

#Emotional #Atheism #Essentials

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

#Doubt #Mind #Atheism

So great are the psychological restistances 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.
-- Harold Lasswell

#Hate #War #Guilt

Politics is who gets what, when, how.
-- Harold Lasswell

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.

Why don't you light that candle ?

In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.