| Word | demagogue |
|---|---|
| Definition | n. A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument. |
| Sentence | Like Plato [Thucydides] finds demagoguery antithetical to any serious thought of justice. Like both of them he is distrustful of out-and-out democracy. |
| Source | On Justice, Power, and Human Nature, selections from Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesian War, introduction, p. x |
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