| The masses were, in brief, shortsighted, selfish and fickle, an easy prey to unscrupulous orators who came to be known as demagogues. |
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| School children are taught that democracy in ancient Greece failed because demagogues whipped up mobs. |
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| In addition, the country is fraught with numerous divisions upon which demagogues can flourish under circumstances of want and inequality. |
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| It spurred students and workers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to oppose the military strongmen, dictators and demagogues in their countries. |
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| Tradition condemned the demagogues as tyrants who manipulated public opinion for their own selfish ends. |
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| But Madrid's ground zero panicked the minds and awoke the demagogues, ready to invert responsibility. |
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| What do these reformist demagogues propose to the millions of minimum-wage workers and the millions of unemployed? |
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| I'm loathe to give support to reform which would bring such demagogues into parliamentary politics, let alone government. |
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| Furthermore it allows the electorate to participate more fully in national matters making politicians more experts in government than demagogues. |
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| They hate us, their treatises and demagogues have long proclaimed, because we appear to them spiritually lukewarm, religiously flaccid. |
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| Faced by a wave of support for anti-immigrant demagogues, there is a danger that governments will adopt some of their attitudes. |
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| Jason Berry received a 1992 Alicia Patterson Fellowship for his coverage of demagogues in Louisiana. |
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| Although the political scene continues to be dominated by nationalist demagogues, there are signs that a significant section of voters feel disenfranchised as a result. |
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| Faced with this situation, it is increasingly the case that it is not only the most extreme right-wing demagogues who are playing the nationalist card. |
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| Sadly, but predictably, the effort to re-enfranchise people with felony convictions has come under attack from demagogues claiming a cynical political motive for the effort. |
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| Discontent fuelled by the pro-business policies of social democratic governments has given a boost to right-wing demagogues in several European countries. |
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| Socrates was one of the most critical opponents of the demagogues. |
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| No, please do not scoff, because that kind of attitude is exactly how all the demagogues and dictators down the ages got away with it. |
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| In the early 1990s, demagogues took multiculturalism to terrible extremes, killing hundreds of thousands of people in the name of ethnic solidarity. |
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| Thinking of Muslims overall as a homogenous group is still more foolhardy however much some of the West's demagogues encourage voters to. |
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| Not for nothing do universities become one of the first targets of demagogues and dictators. |
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| I realize I am listening to the English translation, but I believe the member used an unparliamentary word which was translated as demagogues. |
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| And their main merit is quiet the rumblings of an exasperated public whose desire for vengeance is constantly thwarted by a bunch of demagogues. |
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| The end result would be a society governed by hysteria, in which politics would be run by demagogues in television companies. |
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| Even the Commission has to ask itself why it lacked the courage to defend its protégé against the attacks by demagogues. |
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| Skilful demagogues could easily build on this kind of foundation of aversion to fuel anti-Western feelings and bring about a change of climate. |
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| If demagogues and dictators are allowed to incite religious, ethnic or racial hatred and genocide, do we uphold our democratic values? |
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| This makes them vulnerable to manipulation by demagogues who understand what a powerful political force the need to identify can be. |
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| They blame conflict in divided polities on partisan discrimination by the state, and on manipulative demagogues. |
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| Hedges, most assuredly, is not joining the ranks of those charlatans and demagogues with this slim, powerful volume. |
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| The leadership passed from intellectuals to semi-literate demagogues. |
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| It is true that America has a paranoid streak in its politics, and demagogues come along from time to time to feed on anger and resentment. |
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| The greatest merit of these measures is to calm a population obsessed by a desire for vengeance that is constantly exacerbated by a large number of demagogues. |
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| The European demagogues choose to overlook the need for a boost to the European birth rate and for a family policy worthy of the name and the urgent need to adjust our labour market to demand in order to curb unemployment. |
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| It is the perfect terrain for demagogues, warlords, dictators and crime bosses, whose power is reinforced by illicit wealth and the impunity they secure in lawless times. |
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| They are often moved to action by demagogues, men and women with oratorical ability who gain popularity by arousing the emotions, passions and prejudices of those who listen to them. |
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| The elections are marked by record votes for the right demagogues. |
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| Angry laid-off workers with foreclosed homes and devastated retirement savings are as likely as not to turn to populist demagogues like Sarah Palin, and whoever follows in her train. |
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| Scientists who shut themselves up in the ivory tower of pure research and omit to fulfil their civic duties and to make their voices heard leave the way open to the hotheads and demagogues who are out to replace them. |
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| Preventing demagogues from ranting about Muslims or multiculturalists will not deter a future Anders Breivik. |
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| Stand up to the blowhards and the demagogues who stoke division and hate for their own selfish ends. |
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| In such circumstances, all it would take to open the way to demagogues and other sorts of political faith-healer would be a fresh economic crisis, one harsh enough to make voters fear that treacle was turning into quicksand. |
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| This Europe long in tooth and short on ideas, alien to people's expectations and insensitive to the frustrations welling up everywhere, is a princely gift to populists and demagogues of all kinds. |
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| Economic despair, on the other hand, fosters the conditions in which demagogues can become dictators, as the period between the two world wars highlighted all too well. |
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| The political gnomes who govern us are allowing demagogues from the extreme Right and Left, including National Socialists and other separatists, to demolish the European dream. |
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| Some of these countries still have all kinds of demagogues who could resume their seductive ranting at any moment, sending their countries back to the dinosaur age. |
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| May I also thank all the other Members of Parliament who have patiently, and sometimes discreetly, helped us to work on this difficult and sensitive issue, which is always liable to be a target for demagogues. |
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| Elsewhere in Europe, as well as in other countries, there has been a similar process of demonization taking place, but usually led by extremist political parties or demagogues rather than extremist media. |
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| It is a pity that populist demagogues like Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and the Peronists in Argentina have so mismanaged Latin America's economies. |
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| We must address the international, political and economic injustices which certain demagogues are using to tap into a youthful hunger for justice. |
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| Along with that there is an awareness that there will always be demagogues who believe they can create utopia on earth by enforcing their particular system on society as a whole. |
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| Millions of these have no conception of the meaning and obligation of popular government, and so they are the ready prey of demagogues and groundlings. |
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| Given the troubled Bayou State's long history of rogues and demagogues, the most unusual thing about Gov. Jindal may be his record of by-the-book ethics. |
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