{"quotes":[{"text":"In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.","author":"Barbara W. Tuchman","tags":["demagoguery","democracy","manipulation","materialism","perspective"],"id":49062,"author_id":"Barbara+W.+Tuchman"},{"text":"It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.","author":"Aaron Sorkin","tags":["demagoguery","democracy"],"id":121182,"author_id":"Aaron+Sorkin"},{"text":"He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["anger","demagoguery","leadership","passion","unity"],"id":159470,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"},{"text":"It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["demagoguery","emotion","leadership"],"id":162238,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"},{"text":"You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.","author":"Aristophanes","tags":["demagoguery","disdain","eels","filth","fishing","greed","grime","materialism","peace","politicians","slime","trouble","unclean","unrest","upheaval","vice"],"id":213625,"author_id":"Aristophanes"},{"text":"Hate obscures all distinctions.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["demagoguery","prejudice","racism"],"id":328277,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like passengers in a supersonic jetliner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passel of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat. – Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968.","author":"Mark Kurlansky","tags":["demagoguery","leadership","politics"],"id":392191,"author_id":"Mark+Kurlansky"},{"text":"[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.","author":"Aristophanes","tags":["administration","attributes","barter","character","demagoguery","government","greed","human-voice","language","marketplace","nature","politicians","selfishness","voice"],"id":412344,"author_id":"Aristophanes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}