Quotes About Populism

Instead, the polling business gives the patricians an idea of what the mob is thinking, and of how that thinking might be changed or, shall we say, "shaped." It is the essential weapon in the mastery of populism by the elite.

Almost all religions from Buddhism to Islam feature either a humble prophet or a prince who comes to identify with the poor, but what is this if not populism? It is hardly a surprise if religions choose to address themselves first to the majority who are poor and bewildered and uneducated.

If the apostles do not know or cannot agree, of what use is my analysis? In any case, if his royal lineage is something to brag and prophesy about, why the insistence elsewhere on apparently lowly birth? Almost all religions from Buddhism to Islam feature either a humble prophet or a prince who comes to identify with the poor, but what is this if not populism? It is hardly a surprise if religions choose to address themselves first to the majority who are poor and bewildered and uneducated.

Ogni qual volta un politico getta dubbi sulla legittimità del parlamento perché non rappresenta più la voce del popolo, possiamo sentire l'odore di Ur-Fascismo.

In countries where the people have the ballot you have to promise them something desirable, otherwise the opposition will outbid you.

Los hombres ambiciosos que afectan señoría en sus ciudades, ábrense en ellas rumbo mostrándose parciales de la muchedumbre, y halagándola con ciertos simulacros o apariencias de libertad.

In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.

The populists are spreading slogans. We have to offer solutions and answers.

Trump's pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hungary, although he is far from alone in taking such positions in much of today's Republican Party.

Corbyn and Trump don't seem to have anything in common except the assumption on the part of anyone subscribing at any level to the standard thinking that they could never achieve electoral success. They were supposed to doom, if not destroy, their party's future.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

Future of America. — Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

No es casual que dos valores constantes del discurso populista sean, de un lado, la estimulación del resentimiento social, del otro, la promesa de reparación o revancha.

El discurso populista es por excelencia el del movimiento bueno contra el gobierno malo.

Los movimientos populistas se nutren del descrédito de los partidos políticos y de la ineficacia de los gobiernos. Diría más: del descrédito de la política y de los políticos.

Lo característico de los movimientos populistas es introducir nuevas clientelas al erario público. Por ello terminan con frecuencia en crisis fiscales que se llevan todo lo ganado.

populismo no está sólo en los políticos y en los gobiernos. Está en la sociedad.

El populismo es una continua tentación de la política latinoamericana, porque suele surgir de un hecho histórico también frecuente en nuestras sociedades: el de las modernizaciones inconclusas.

Sólo hay un remedio democrático sólido contra la tentación populista: el desarrollo mismo, la modernización incluyente.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

I chose to start Schwarzman Scholars because I saw the potential for the world to become focused and unhappy with China, in large part because of the populism that was growing throughout the world.

Political orientation is unimportant in populism because it does not deal in evidence or detailed proposals for change but in the manipulation of feelings by charismatic leaders.

Demagoguery is not unknown in American history.