Quotes of Troublemaker - somelinesforyou

“ Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it. ”

- Bill Mauldin

“ I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself. ”

- Paul Daniels

“ Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. ”

- H.L. Mencken

“ The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. The police gave them clubs. ”

- Mother Jones

“ The President's focus on Social Security as a national problem demonstrates his willingness to lead where others have chosen to demagogue. ”

- Lindsey Graham

“ The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews. ”

- Charlie Chaplin

“ A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country. ”

- Don Marquis

“ I was also surprised at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to demagogue against the rights of gun owners, for instance. ”

- James Bovard

“ Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. ”

- Elizabeth I

“ Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go. ”

- Miranda Richardson

“ Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry). ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ Humor heals the heckler. ”

- Gerald C. Meyers

“ Ask a heckler to identify himself and his company. They usually prefer to be anonymous. ”

- Judy Moreo

“ A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble. ”

- Euripides

“ In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues. ”

- Macaulay

“ Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers. ”

- Bayard Rustin

“ We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ The best thing about Las Vegas is that no one pretends to be responsible for your behavior like they do in the rest of the country. There's no meddling self-righteous liberals or right-wing Christian demagogues telling you that you can't do something fun with your own time and money… ”

- Drew Carey

“ Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment? ”

- Henry Miller

“ Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it. ”

- Bill Mauldin

“ I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself. ”

- Paul Daniels

“ Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. ”

- H.L. Mencken

“ The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. The police gave them clubs. ”

- Mother Jones
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