Lasswell Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over ... — Mary Lasswell

You can't keep a squirrel on the ground. — Mary Lasswell

Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is. — Mary Lasswell

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

Children of yesterday, / Heirs of to-morrow, / What are you weaving? / Labor and sorrow? / Look to your looms again. / Faster and faster / Fly the great shuttles / Prepared by the Master, / Life's in the loom, / Room for it - / Room! — Mary Lasswell

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

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

I began to understand that all Texas is an eternal synthesis of past and present, superimposed one upon the other. It produces a feeling of being in two places at once. — Mary Lasswell

way." The giant scratched his head and looked doubtful. — Mary Lasswell

I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand."
Mary Lasswell — Mary Lasswell