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  • 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.

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

    Mind   Doubt   Atheism  
    Harold D. Lasswell (1986). “Psychopathology and Politics”, p.175, University of Chicago Press
  • 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.

  • Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

    Harold D. Lasswell (1986). “Psychopathology and Politics”, p.8, University of Chicago Press
  • Politics is who gets what, when, how.

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Harold Lasswell

  • Born: February 13, 1902
  • Died: December 18, 1978
  • Occupation: Political Scientist