Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Harold Lasswell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Harold Lasswell.
Last updated on November 10, 2024.
Harold Lasswell

Harold Dwight Lasswell was an American political scientist and communications theorist. He earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy and economics and was a PhD student at the University of Chicago. He was a professor of law at Yale University. He studied at the Universities of London, Geneva, Paris, and Berlin in the 1920s. He served as president of the American Political Science Association (APSA), of the American Society of International Law and of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS).

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.
Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy. — © Harold Lasswell
Political science without biography is a form of 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.
Politics is who gets what, when, how.
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