Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Populism, literally, means speaking for 'the people.' In practice it means demagoguery. — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
“It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.” — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides. — Bill Delahunt Copy Share Image
I think my main concern is because I worry about demagoguery. It's real. You see the people standing up there and applauding. — Bernie Sanders 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
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
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
Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference. — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Many excellent artists working today unfortunately lack the indispensable gifts necessary for demagoguery and self-promotion, while the bad ones are full of… — Roman Genn Copy Share Image
“The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart… — Harry Zohn Copy Share Image
Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a… — Eugen Kogon Copy Share Image
American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information,… — Henry A. Wallace 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
I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why… — Riane Eisler 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
Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the… — Hubert H. Humphrey 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
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological… — Daniel J. Boorstin 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
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
We lack a political culture, a culture of compromise. We in Poland, as well as the Hungarians, have never learned this sort… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
“Madeleine Albright has said that there is 'a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.' What are the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 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
“When speculation becomes “truth,” opinion “fact,” and prejudice a “holy cause,” demagoguery is not far behind.” — Laurence G. Boldt 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
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
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
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
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
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
