Demagoguery Quote by Gavin Esler

There is a line in which populism can cross over into demagoguery. Demagoguery is the crossover where populism becomes a bad thing, and people…

— Lloyd Blankfein

Freedom of speech does not mean disgusting and disrespecting someone or someones faith. Freedom of speech means speaking against the wrong and not against…

— HQLinesme

“Honesty is not making excuses for yourself, an abusive partner, or a country that has less than a stellar history. It means speaking out.…

— Trista Hendren

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

— Ry Cooder

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

— Jerry Brown

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing…

— Aristophanes

Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it…

— Anonymous

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood,…

— Ronald Reagan

I find it deeply disturbing that someone wanting to be president of the United States would talk the way Donald Trump talks, use the…

— Hillary Clinton

“It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.”

— Aaron Sorkin

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

— Walter E. Williams