Art Quote by Bret Stephens

Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing…

— Frank Herbert

I think that in a certain sense, we're concerned about the same issues. How do you accent the progressive, the prophetic, those things that…

— Cornel West

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

— H. L. Mencken

“There is a need today for what I call prophetic simplicity. We need voices of dissent that point to another way, creative models that…

— Richard J. Foster

“Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion,…

— George will

Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.

— Jerry Brown

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

— Zephyr Teachout

Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions,…

— John Dewey

“The prophetic movement is called to be as well as to say. They are to be a light set on a hill, the salt…

— Jack Provonsha

Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is so much noise on the Internet, with would-be prophets daily haranguing their audience and megalomaniacs trying to push bizarre ideas, that eventually…

— Michio Kaku

“Any act of intolerance, of ideological intransigence, or of proselytism exposes the beastly core of all enthusiasm….One can never stay far enough from the…

— Robert D. Kaplan