Quotes About Ideology

Listening to vegetarians talk about the benefits of a plant-based diet, it can be hard to separate health claims from ideological, ethical, or environmental claims. At various times it has been claimed that vegetarianism can end world hunger; end food cravings; reverse global warming; reverse heart disease; reduce violent crime; reduce cholesterol; improve the sex drive; reduce the sex drive; end sexism; cure cancer, and usher in the Age of Aquarius. Apparently soybeans grow best in bullshit.

For it is, to a large degree, the scientific and governmental elite and the selected media that it controls that determine what we are to believe is real, for these monoliths are the principal beneficiaries of the dominant ideology.

A greedy insistence that the whole of nature and life must present itself to our voracious demand for instantaneous intelligibility is a symptom of all world-shrinking ideology, whether religiously fundamentalist or scientifically materialist. In

Will you at last take your red-conservative and blue-progressive-colored glasses off your blinkered consciousness and SEE who really is destroying your country and your constitutional freedoms? It ain't ISIS or al-Qaeda.

There are times when a society is so totally controlled by an ideology that the greatest need is that someone simply identify a point where he can say a clear no in the name of his loyalty to a higher authority. We have no right to say that those who refused to enroll in the racist crusade of Adolf Hitler should first have been obligated practically or morally to propose an alternative social strategy before they had the right to refuse.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

As so often with the ideologically committed free marketer, there is no sense that he's actually thinking about what he's saying; he's merely adumbrating arguments towards a conclusion he reached in advance.

For Pol Pot, as for every other kamikaze of Kingdom Come, "the goal was not to destroy but to transmute." We have heard this chiliastic tommyrot before, from a variety of faith-based ethnic cleansers forever seeking to transmute the rest of us to death.

Stalin's postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

I knew she was a political radical, but when you're nineteen that's sexy.

People who read Taryn's book often quoted Heine: '"Where they have burned books at the end they will burn people." That's what your book is about,' he said. 'That's where its whole argument leads.

no ideology can protect a son from the unwelcome inheritance of his father's ambitions.

She called Christopher. "He's a Republican," she said. "Well, that's gross," Christopher answered.

The Yogi and the Commissar

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Cuando veo todas esas camisas negras, pardas, rojas o azules, exigiendo que te afilies a esto o aquello, pienso que antes el mundo era de los ricos y ahora va a ser de los resentidos.

Aun así, es interesante recordar lo que en los años setenta dijo al respecto un viejo comunista: Si hubiésemos ganado la guerra, a Companys también lo habríamos fusilado nosotros, por traidor a la República.

Unos mueren por el paraíso de Cristo y otros por el del proletariado.

Porque buena parte de las ejecuciones y paseos dados en los dos bandos durante la Guerra Civil del 36 al 39 —o los que ahora darían algunos si pudieran— no fueron sino eso: nuestra vieja afición a seguir manteniendo viva la Inquisición por otros medios.

Concordia? ¡No! ¡Guerra de clases!, titulaba El Socialista).

Si el primer intento golpista había venido de la derecha, con el golpe frustrado del general Sanjurjo, el segundo, más grave y sangriento, vino de la izquierda, y se llamó revolución de Asturias. En octubre de 1934, mientras en Cataluña el presidente Companys proclamaba un Estado catalán que fue disuelto con prudente habilidad por el general Batet (años más tarde fusilado por los franquistas, que no le perdonaron esa prudencia)