65 Quotes About Populism

The Voting SonnetWhy should you vote you ask,Since it changes nothing!And nothing will change,By acting the indifferent weakling.If you want things to change,Support character not charisma.Trash all your populist snobbery,And it'll abolish all political miasma.Politics is manipulation,But it is so due to your gullibility.Seek out the leader with backbone,Only then there'll be hope for humanity.But if you find not a leader of character,Arise and be the one you seek here and there.

Democracy driven by populism leads to a savage, superstitious and divided society, not a civilized, thinking and united one.

Even a doctor has to go through almost a decade of rigorous training to take care of people's health, and as for a politician who is to take care of the very lives of the people, there is no training! What kind of a deplorable stupidity is this? And we glorify this stupidity with the title of democracy.

Democratic citizenship in an anxious world can be deeper, more informed citizenship. Without full spectrum of voices from partisan political elites, though, anxious citizens in search of protection from threats to their health and way of life may support charlatans or madman who offer bodily protection while destroying the body politic.

It is one thing give a voice to people's frustrations and another to give them solutions.

Indian democracy has taught the world the beauty and competitiveness of its governing system for a prolonged period. But Modi administration is remapping the Indian political map which some called the rise of nationalism, while others called it the rise of patriotism in this era of populism.

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

It takes a conscious practice of reason to recognize greatness in the making and shallowness in the limelight.

Today, the voice of populist infantile politics is amplified by social media allowing the ignorant to claim equality with the informed.