T. D. Jakes Quotes

When people don't want 'em, when they profit from the division, however, be it politically or financially, that's when I abhor it.

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

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.

I think most of America is seeing the strings behind the campaign, and sees the crass political maneuvers that people are making. I mean, they're extremely apparent to me.

dangerous demagogue corrupt pervert, prostitute, debauch cursed.

Exploitation and government are two inseparable expressions of what is called politics.

Demagogues are the mob's lackeys.

What we see before us is a politics devoid of kindness and truth... today, politics is not being used in the service of the people: it is being used to crush them, not to lift them up.

Jayalalitha is a performing monkey in the hands of Sasikala.

I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.

Reaping political dividends out of tragedies is deeply engrained in the Congress' DNA.

I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

There's never been an era absent of demagogues.

A man thinks he is dying for his country," said Anatole France, "but he is dying for a few industrialists." But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.

The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.

How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.

There are surely people in London who would love to play us off against each other. That would be disastrous for the EU.

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue. When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself.

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.