65 Quotes About Populism

There is little taste for 'high culture' especially in Evangelicalism, where the tendency has long been toward translation - making things accessible to the largest number of people.

Populists, by contrast, will persist with their representative claim no matter what; because their claim is of moral and symbolic- not an empirical- nature, it cannot be disproven.

Tread very carefully where injustice is concerned, because it takes very little for the oppressed to become the new oppressors.

It is imperative that all uprising be guided by an urge for justice, not a craving for revenge.

Corrupt politicians are only symptom, real disease is populist democracy.

They call me a tyrant . . . One arrives at a tyrant's throne by the help of scoundrels . . . What faction do I belong to? You yourselves. What is that faction which, since the Revolution began, has crushed the factions and swept away hireling traitors? It is you, it is the people, it is the principles of the Revolution. . . . [trans. G. Rudé, ellipses sic; Last Speech to the Convention (July 26, 1794)].

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest politician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance.

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

Într-o lume de neînțeles, mereu schimbătoare, masele atinseseră punctul în care puteau crede, în același timp, orice sau nimic, când ele gândeau că totul este posibil și că nimic nu e adevărat. Amestecul era destul de ciudat, întru-cât demonstra sfârșitul iluziei că naivitatea era o slăbiciune a spiritelor primitive nebănuitoare, iar cinismul reprezenta viciul unor minți superioare și rafinate.