Demagogues Quote by Aristotle

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

— Anonymous

People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by…

— Friedrich Engels

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a…

— Fisher Ames

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

— Aristotle

“A democratic state begins from the assumption that most of those who gravitate toward power are mediocre and probably immoral. It assumes that we…

— Chris Hedges

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

— Fisher Ames

The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will…

— Ludwig von Mises

Under the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show, democratic law tends more and more to be grounded upon the…

— H. L. Mencken

“Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They can make…

— Frank Herbert

In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs…

— Konstantin Pobedonostsev

In a democracy, people are supreme.

— Arvind Kejriwal