The-people Quote by Terry Pratchett Download Open image ““vox populi, vox deorum”” — Terry Pratchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare The-people Vox populi
The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It's between… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
“True democracy speaks; it does not shout. It listens to reason, not the roar of populism.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Populism, literally, means speaking for 'the people.' In practice it means demagoguery. — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Paralysis in decision-making breeds frustration and contempt from the electorate, and provides the perfect seedbed for demagogues who fill the vacuum with populist simplicities,… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
The rise of populism has steadily coalesced movements of millions of people around its divisive us-against-them rhetoric, motivating so many more people to become… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
“Voter NOUN a paranoid schizophrenic who believes the voices promising them an alternate future are real.” — David Gustafson Copy Share Image
Politicians and leaders who see the media as 'the enemy within' divide society into two clashing cultural camps. Populist demagogues benefit from binary oppositions. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end.... The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“If king needs to be treated by psychiatrist, then the people need replacements for both.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century Russian literature, swooning with compassion for the suffering brother, had created for Nerzhin, and for everyone reading it for the first time, the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image