Demagogue Quotes

24 Demagogue quotes by 21 unique authors

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy. — Chris Christie
This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace… — Frank I. Cobb
Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups… — Ian Kershaw
Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue. — Unknown Author
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool.… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue.… — Stephen Jay Gould
Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It… — Chris Hedges
The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him,… — James F. Cooper
Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich. Capital levies and high income… — Ludwig von Mises
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he. — Karl Kraus
[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals… — H. L. Mencken
The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals. — Harry Golden
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty,… — Joseph Brodsky
But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled,… — Jack Newfield
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in… — James F. Cooper
The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and… — H. L. Mencken
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country. — Don Marquis
. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government. — Frank Zappa
[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… — Aristophanes
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions,… — Jorge Luis Borges
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. — H. L. Mencken
Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful… — Calvin Coolidge
Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry) — Richard M. Nixon
The demagogue is usually sly,a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a… — James Fenimore Cooper

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