“It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.” — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I bet we'll see a lot of demagoguery [in Donald Trump speech] about the 10,000 Syrians that [Barack] Obama has allowed to… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“Most of most politicians’ answers are long-winded implicit ways of saying: ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I don’t want you to know’.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of… — Antonio de Oliveira Salazar Copy Share Image
Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference. — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
I've said many times - I told William Buckley, I said, "You warped my mind and I never recovered from it." That… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Maybe Pope Francis will say something on his visit to the US, maybe he'll rebuke Donald Trump and anti-immigrant racism and demagoguery… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle… — Moby Copy Share Image
[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place.… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime,… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
I find it deeply disturbing that someone wanting to be president of the United States would talk the way Donald Trump talks,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You all remember how many years ago, we were younger, it was uppity women who are trying to take our jobs as… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
If you've heard Hillary Clinton's recent remarks on Ritalin and other drug use on children, you'll find the usual nauseating demagoguery. She… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
I think the Congress will do the right thing. I think that they've - you know, they got into certain arguments and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's a lovely thing to see intelligent argument, unbending principle and policy go up against demagoguery, nativism and vulgar name-calling. — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Leadership means inspiring us to manage through our fears. Demagoguery means exploiting our fears for political gain.” — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides. — Bill Delahunt Copy Share Image
Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
We're living through an age of irrationality and religious "fervor" I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“When speculation becomes “truth,” opinion “fact,” and prejudice a “holy cause,” demagoguery is not far behind.” — Laurence G. Boldt Copy Share Image
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When people like Glenn Beck throw around the word Nazi without taking that kind of care, they are engaging in demagoguery. I… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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![“[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.” quote by Aristophanes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5dd/aristophanes-3340_attributes_y-ou-possess-all-the-attributes-of-a-dem_1649547.jpg)
![“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.” quote by Aristophanes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f7/aristophanes-3340_demagoguery_you-demagogues-are-like-the-fishers-for_87488.jpg)
