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The habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Just as demagogues lead their well-intentioned followers into tragedy, so the jungle inevitable reclaims it's own.
— Jeff Gunn
I think that person who actually proposes things, who will save Medicare, will be in a lot stronger position than someone who demagogues the issue.
— Tom Latham
It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.
— Barry Goldwater
If you have to hit--hit low.
— Tamora Pierce
Demagogues thrive in dim light.
— Garrison Keillor
If a single nutty or dangerous vision comes to be sufficiently widely shared, demagogues may be able to ride it to power.
— Christopher H. Achen
It's a job and we're going to work together for six months, so let's have a good time.
— Desmond Harrington
Hamilton's besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism.
— Ron Chernow
When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it.
— Doug Cooper
Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.
— John Avlon
If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Reason is not a tyrannical God like Allah, or a bloodthirsty demon like Bhowanee; Reason does not speak in my ears but gives me ears to listen with.
— Tabish Khair
Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants.
— Timothy Snyder
In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
— Oscar Wilde
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.
— William Shakespeare
Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
— Mads Mikkelsen
Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.
— Euripides
A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.
— Jean-Luc Godard
America's two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we've all heard plenty of both in our time.
— Stephen King
Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
— Agatha Christie