Demagogues Quote by David Lagercrantz

“The majority of people carry in their minds and in their hearts, grudges, jealousy, envy, antipathies, prejudices, which, although not very pronounced in their…

— Orison Swett Marden

“You disintegrated into the recriminations, the headlines, the pictures. You scattered yourself into proofs, warnings, suspicions, arrests. You rode out into the dark outrage…

— Jonathan Lee

“We’ve seen that our brains can be manipulated by political agendas to dehumanize other people, which can then lead to the darkest side of…

— David Eagleman

“The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light.”

— Victor Hugo

“How do we understand prejudice, hatred, and violence in the context of modern societies, like our own, among people much like ourselves, among men…

— Helmut Walser Smith

“They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“...that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.”

— Roland Barthes

“And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it…

— George Orwell

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

— Marquis de Sade

“There was a difference between violent, destructive crimes and bending rules that were prejudiced or predatory to start.”

— Angela Flournoy

“With distrust came suspicion and with suspicion came fear, and with fear came hate--and these, in already distorted minds, inflamed a hell.”

— Zane Grey

“The very thought of such people’s intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of self superiority, and their callous imposition of their own beliefs on others…

— Haruki Murakami