Populism Quotes

Populism Quote of the day

We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

Populism is dangerous.

The ability of people to reach their own news sources now, and create different views, is really unbelievable, and [populism] may be part of this.

At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".

Even if parties associated with right wing populism don't win, they push other parties, the centrist parties, towards their position. So they do have an influence even if they're not in power.

I try to speak in a manner that allows people to tell me apart from my political adversaries. And I speak in a manner that the people can understand. For me, that isn't populism.

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.

Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.

You see a wave of populism in the world. There is something wrong. This maybe because of technology.

This work is either useless or harmful, because there is nothing good about populism. If you wanted to hear my opinion on this issue, that is what I think.

Populism is everywhere. We have religious populism in the Muslim-majority countries as much as we have populism in the United States of America.

You might have some people that disagree with populism and anti-globalism and so forth, but Donald Trump has no desire to undermine America.

Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.

There are two forms of populism, left-wing populism and right-wing populism. Right-wing populism requires the denigration of an "Other." Left-wing populism tends to be about the haves and have-nots.

The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem.

It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no

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

Help yourself with the state! It's on democracy!

When libertarian sentiments take a populist form, it looks like this: a mix of anger, fear, anti-intellectualism, and fierce government hostility. Welcome to the Tea Party movement.