Demagoguery Define Quotes & Sayings

I look for people who have insight in places where I don't. — Russell Simmons

In his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides adduces a change in language as a major factor in Athens's descent from dysfunctional democracy through demagoguery into tyranny and anarchy: people began to define things in any way they pleased, he says, and the "normally accepted meaning of words" broke down. In his account of the Catiline crisis in republican Rome, Sallust has Cato the Younger identify the misuse of language - specifically the scission of word and meaning - as the underlying cause of the threat to the state. Society, Cato says, has lost the "vera vocabula rerum," literally, the "true names of things."18 In seventeenth-century England, Thomas Hobbes lived through a civil war he believed had been caused in significant measure by a war of words about religion - spread through the pervasive pamphleteering that printing had made possible - that had fatally weakened the linguistic common ground on which an ordered state depends. — Mark John Thompson

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s. — Jesse Ventura

Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad. — Gregory Maguire

The first thing you learn on the trading floor is that when large numbers of people are after the same commodity, be it a stock, a bond, or a job, the commodity quickly becomes overvalued. — Michael Lewis

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain. — Kahlil Gibran

To have someone get out of bed and bring you little fishes and sit with you as you eat them in the dark of night. To hum to you. This is love. — Kate DiCamillo

Certain objects that are supposed to (a) remain horizontal and (b) support heavy things have ceased to do either. — Neal Stephenson

It seems the guys who are best at sex approach it with the serenity of a Buddhist monk. They are never going to beg for it and when the time is right (and all signs point to yes), then they take charge masterfully and completely. — Roberto Hogue

The groups I liked, you really looked forward to their albums and you rushed to get them the first day, because you knew it was going to be different than what they did before. The records told you what that group was into at that time. — Mick Jones

The heart will stretch a short love into long memories. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health. — Elisabeth Tova Bailey