The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion. — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion. — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world. — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,” — David Lagercrantz Copy Share Image
Public crises, particularly those concerning life and death, offer demagogues ample opportunity to amass more power. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head? — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these… — Benjamin Disraeli 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
Down with politics and the art of the possible; up with pronouncements and the allure of the prophetic: It's the way of… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
People are saying, "I have a right to my opinion. Don't just keep condescending, telling me what to think." There's something slightly… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
I think that person who actually proposes things, who will save Medicare, will be in a lot stronger position than someone who… — Tom Latham Copy Share Image
We have demagogues on all sides of the political spectrum. It's not helpful. It's destructive. It's harmful. So, I don't like demagoguery… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
Paralysis in decision-making breeds frustration and contempt from the electorate, and provides the perfect seedbed for demagogues who fill the vacuum with… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
“When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Pardon me for budging into concoction of the aristocrats blowing their trumpets, the demagogues' doctrines, the antagonists' squeals, the hypocrites' assertions, the… — Mukesh Kwatra Copy Share Image
Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“There were still too many people who were afraid of a technology that eluded them, still more who would never have access… — Melissa Scott Copy Share Image
We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will… — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
Syllogisms а la mode - If you are against labor racketeers, then you are against the working man. If you are against… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“America’s two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we’ve all heard plenty of both in our time.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Like so many demagogues before him, Trump encouraged a zero-sum view of life where if someone else is gaining, you must be… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
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