In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to…

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

— Juvenal

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

— George Bernard Shaw

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

— Quintus Ennius

“Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long…

— Rafael Sabatini

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

— Alan Moore

Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he…

— John Gay

Poor Paddy of all Christian men I think On basest food pours down the vilest drink.

— William Allingham

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

— Anonymous

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

— Ben Jonson

Paralysis in decision-making breeds frustration and contempt from the electorate, and provides the perfect seedbed for demagogues who fill the vacuum with populist simplicities,…

— Dominic Grieve

“Like so many demagogues before him, Trump encouraged a zero-sum view of life where if someone else is gaining, you must be losing.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,”

— David Lagercrantz

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing…

— Aristophanes

The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.

— Bill Kristol