Demagogue Quotes

Why should I admire somebody for his ability to manipulate me? In other realms of life, this talent is known as demagoguery. - Leon Wieseltier

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues. - Mark Twain

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked. - Michelle Malkin

While Mike Cox delivers, Scott Bowen demagogues. - Rusty Hills

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. - Todd Gitlin

We all recognize and appreciate the courage it takes. He is willing to take on elements of his party who are going to demagogue this. - Randel Johnson

This is a flagrant example of demagoguery and hate-mongering. - Aref Assaf

The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin. - George William Curtis

The struggle against demagoguery scarcely fits the St George-against-the-dragon myth Our democratic St George goes out rather reluctantly with armor awry. - Norman Thomas