Demagogueing Quotes & Sayings

But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after. — Michelangelo Antonioni

It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if the remainder do. And I think if they can learn something from us in terms of our system, and I think they have, they are learning more about how to unleash the potential of their citizenry to turn out more goods and services that their citizens want or that we want, I think that's terrific. — Howard Warren Buffett

Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult. — Hans Rosling

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

17. He thought that thus fear would act as a curb on lust, and that lust being curbed would not run riot in luxury, and that luxury being prevented avarice would be at an end; and that these vices being banished, virtue would flourish and increase the great profit of the state; and liberty, the fit companion of virtue, would abide unfettered. — Augustine Of Hippo

you don't understand," she pleaded, hopping down from the counter. — Allison Jewell

I would hope that we could have this in an adult fashion and stop demagogueing the issue anytime you talk about any substantive reforms that will actually save social security and save Medicare and save the system from imploding on itself. — Ben Quayle

What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States. — H.L. Mencken

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody! — Peter Stone

Naturally occurring timeless awareness - utterly lucid awakened mind
is something marvelous and superb, primordially and spontaneously present.
It is the treasury from which comes the universe of appearances and possibilities, whether of samsara or nirvana.
Homage to the unwavering state, free of elaborations. — Longchen Rabjam

The Wall Street firm became a black box. The shareholders who financed the risk taking had no real understanding of what the risk takers were doing, and, as the risk taking grew ever more complex, their understanding diminished. — Michael Lewis

You see, that's the true spirit of Christmas: people being helped by people other than me. — Jerry Seinfeld

If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time. — Stephen Levine