Bernie Sanders Quotes

Trump manipulates the fearful by promising that he will use his fraudulent deal-making prowess to protect and take care of his supporters.

Demagogues are the mob's lackeys.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

Demagoguery is not unknown in American history.

Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.

There's never been an era absent of demagogues.

People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.

The way to get people's votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will stop those other people from giving them trouble. But if you really want to help, then you can tell them the truth and risk losing their votes.

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

…a low and dangerous demagogue.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

By exploiting envy and fear, politicians can portray themselves as the saviors and protectors of the public — doing and saying whatever is necessary to gain the support needed to remain in power.

You never discount a demagogue.

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

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.

I think it's fair to say there is a demagogic path that Europeans, South Americans, Asians have pursued, and we know where that leads. It uses xenophobia, it uses paranoia, it uses prejudice, it uses nationalism to really stir people up and to, you know, begin an us-versus-them contrast, which is dangerous and is not something we've had in our politics at a presidential level in America.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of "little guy" or "silent majority" rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves.

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.

… becoming a very dangerous proposition…. an out and out demagogue

The demagogue ... is a good showman, whether at Nuremberg at a youth conference, or in Georgia at a political barbecue. He knows the tricks of the ham actor, the gestures, the tones of voice that can arouse passions. Always he dresses himself up as the little man come to life, grown to Brobdingnagian stature and become the "Duce" or the "Leader" or, maybe, "Ploughboy Pete.