Frustration Quote by Dominic Grieve

There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of "little guy" or "silent majority" rhetoric, and it is very…

— Christopher Hitchens

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of…

— Walter Lippmann

“Populism is ultimately sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry "I don't know what's going on, but I've just had…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Historically, it is traditional and habitual for us to be inadequately prepared. This is the combined result of a number factors, the character of…

— Ernest King

“A populist feeding anger and fear is more likely to get elected.”

— Louise Penny

Political paralysis and partisanship are sabotaging American power.

— Max Boot

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

— Aristotle

Hate numbs the judgment, paralyzes the vitals of democracy.

— A. A. Gill

Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.

— Preston Manning

“The defect of democracy is its tendency to put mediocrity into power; and there is no way of avoiding this except by limiting office…

— Will Durant

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

— Frank Herbert

“Antidemocracy, executive predominance, and elite rule are basic elements of inverted totalitarianism. Antidemocracy does not take the form of overt attacks upon the idea…

— Sheldon S. Wolin