Eric Liu

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.

American Writer

Nathan Englander

The reason people get afraid of writing real, honest journalism and fiction, and the reason corrupted people and demagogues are afraid of journalism and fiction and poetry across the world, is because it is a subversive form.

Ron Johnson

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 comes from the left, it comes from the right.

American

Michael J. Knowles

Public crises, particularly those concerning life and death, offer demagogues ample opportunity to amass more power.

American Author

Neil Bush

Trump's anti-China trade demagoguery may work in firing up his base, but it does a disservice to the truth.

American Businessman

Mads Mikkelsen

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

Danish Actor

Hamza Yusuf

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

American Clergyman

Cory Booker

Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so.

American Politician

Steve Schmidt

There's never been an era absent of demagogues.

David Brock

Demagogues often appeal to emotions like fear or anger rather than logical arguments.

Emotional Appeal

'Demagogue' has a negative connotation, implying manipulation and dishonesty in leadership.

Negative Connotation

While it can be used broadly, 'demagogue' is mostly used in political contexts.

Political Context

 and the political system is distorted by powerful vested interests. I think there's two ways to resolve this paradox. One is to give up on democracy; it doesn't work. Let's elect a populist demagogue who will ignore democratic norms, trample on liberal freedoms and just get things done.

What if we replaced...

 about genocide or nuclear proliferation or poverty or any other hugely consequential issue but the demagogues are right about one thing we need a universal conception of human values now what stands in the way of this well one thing to notice is that we we do

Science can answer moral...

 We will die to protect the carriers of our DNA and turn away from the suffering of those who don't. Kin selection can inspire us to die saving a brother, but it's also the drive exploited by the demagogue and the supremacist,

Shadows of Forgotten...

 and not about genocide or nuclear proliferation or poverty or any other hugely consequential issue. But the demagogues are right about one We need a universal conception of human values. Now, what stands in the way of this?

 All these figures, at first glance -- they seem disconnected. But I think they feed each other, and they need each other. And all around the world, when we look at how demagogues talk and how they inspire movements,

The revolutionary power...

 That's why I spend my time teaching, preaching and practicing democracy. I have no illusions. All around the world now, people are doubting whether democracy can deliver. Autocrats and demagogues seem emboldened,

How to revive your...

 and empathy and understanding speak louder than demagoguery and apathy. Stories bring us together. Untold stories and entrenched silences keep us apart. But how to tell the stories of humanity and nature

If trees could speak PIPE...

 human rights, freedom of the press and a free and open internet, all around the world. I believe that, ultimately, we can overcome the digitally empowered networks of extremism, demagoguery and hate.

We can fight terror...

 In this context, it means that we are the product that's being sold. We need a digital economy where our data and our attention is not for sale to the highest-bidding authoritarian or demagogue.

We're building a...

 Perhaps, though a small one. But the reaction to it was so extreme that it caused far more damage than the threat itself. And if new demagogues appeared in uncertain times