Quotes About Populists

#1. The delight of populists and the horror of the European Union, Switzerland voted in favour of quotas for EU migrants.

Anonymous

#2. The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.

Richard Hofstadter

#3. Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

Gore Vidal

#4. Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don't fall in the first place.

Jim Hightower

#5. Historic fascists generally argued that women's primary function was domestic and reproductive. National-populists

Kevin Passmore

#6. The 'noble savage' whom the Populists had seen in the simple peasant was, as Gorky now concluded, no more than a romantic illusion. And the more he experienced the everyday life of the peasant, the more he denounced them as savage and barbaric.

Orlando Figes

#7. There have always been hucksters, cranks and populists who see a brief rise in American politics, going back to William Jennings Bryan at the turn of the century. The body politic has a way of expelling these invaders.

Joseph Rago

#8. Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

David Rockefeller

#9. History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.

Zephyr Teachout

#10. There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

Ed Koch

#11. A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.

Thomas Frank

#12. In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority.

Robert Dallek

#13. Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured political candidates promising economic relief through free and unlimited coinage of silver.

Robert Dallek

#14. The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

William Gibson

#15. Many of these slaveholding populists were celebrated by posterity as tribunes of the common people. Meanwhile, the self-made Hamilton, a fervent abolitionist and a staunch believer in meritocracy, was villainized in American history textbooks as an apologist of privilege and wealth.

Ron Chernow

#16. In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.

Zephyr Teachout

#17. Populists (and 'national socialists') look at the supposedly secret deals that run the world 'behind the scenes'. Child's play. Except that childishness is sinister in adults.

Christopher Hitchens

#18. But if we keep denying that there are problems with some male immigrants, then we will just drive the people into the arms of the right-wing populists. Without the ignorance or the trivialization on the part of all the political parties, there would be no Pegida or Alternative for Germany.

Alice Schwarzer

#19. Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

Victor Hugo

#20. Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#21. Love is so great ... So why does it have to go so wrong?

Hideyuki Kikuchi

#22. He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.

Antonio Porchia

#23. Entertainment is such a non-reality.

Katharine McPhee

#24. shopping trolleys

Lee Child

#25. Relative terms do not make for relative truths. All truth values are absolute in their own context, because all statements either correspond to reality or they do not.

Douglas Beaumont

#26. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.

Andrew Shue

#28. The irony is lost on you.

Courtney Cole

#29. Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#30. In extraordinary circumstances and against the odds, Churchill became Prime Minister instead of Halifax, and that one decision changed the course of history.

Michael Dobbs

#31. But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold.

Sara Teasdale