Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded- after all, the cop was protecting us.

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept ever…

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Wherever the sentiment of the majority is still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its claim to be obeyed. (p. 13)

Jacques Ellul observes in Propaganda: When dialogue begins, propaganda ends. His theme, that propaganda is not this or that ideology but rather the action and …