"But they were as different as fire and……" — Jack Newfield
"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, unintelligent demagogue."
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10 Quotes by Jack Newfield
Jack Newfield has 10 quotes on this site.
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I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.
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He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.
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I don't fight for nobody else because Don King has made me money. Yet I hear people saying Don King…
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Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in…
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His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he…
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Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not…
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All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears…
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It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life,…
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Koch has committed egocide with this book.
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More Demagogue Quotes
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Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.
— Chris Christie
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This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may…
— Frank I. Cobb
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Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich]…
— Ian Kershaw
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Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a…
— Moby
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What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity…
— Chris Hedges
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The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality…
— James F. Cooper
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Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich.…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever…
— Karl Kraus
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[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are…
— H. L. Mencken
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The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.
— Harry Golden
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