Believe Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

“No ideologues, not even religious ones, are going to be happy with Tolkien, unless they manage it by misreading him. For like all great…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing…

— Frank Herbert

Syllogisms а la mode - If you are against labor racketeers, then you are against the working man. If you are against demagogues, then…

— H. L. Mencken

Down with politics and the art of the possible; up with pronouncements and the allure of the prophetic: It's the way of demagogues everywhere.

— Bret Stephens

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

— Barry Goldwater

What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?

— Francis Collins

Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.

— John Avlon

We have demagogues on all sides of the political spectrum. It's not helpful. It's destructive. It's harmful. So, I don't like demagoguery whether it…

— Ron Johnson

“Demagogues thrive in dim light.”

— Garrison Keillor

We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause…

— Philip Gulley

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

“Like so many demagogues before him, Trump encouraged a zero-sum view of life where if someone else is gaining, you must be losing.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,”

— David Lagercrantz

“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

The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.

— Bill Kristol