Quotes About Ideology

The biggest wars are the wars of thought. The Oldest Soldier

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

There would be a course on the philosophy of history; another year the philosophy of Marxism, another the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of science, etc. All of these were presented in the light of the thought of St. Thomas.

Communism is strong only when it borrows some of the moral indignation that has been inherited from the Hebraic-Christian traditions;

By trying to advance the perfect conservative solution, nobody wins.

Conservatism, when presented in full strength at the ballot, wins at the ballot.

Until the Right wins for once, I have no interest in arguing with the alt-right or disavowing anyone.

No one but the ruling class wins in a culture war.

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.

When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.

The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the 'intellectuals.'

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more.

I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.

If the party of Lincoln wishes to become the party of intolerance, selecting Trump to be its presidential candidate is a good way forward.

Knowledge, information, wit, and the way you disseminate these attributes can often prove to be a more disarming weapon against an enemy or some with whom your ideology is in conflict, than violence or lethal weapons.

It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It's a real set of carnival sideshows.

I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.