Quotes About Ideology

el líder de la derecha, Gil Robles, había afirmado: Sociedad única y patria única. Y al que quiera discutirlo hay que aplastarlo.

Por su parte, Largo Caballero, líder del ala socialista radical, había sido aún más explícito e irresponsable: Si ganan las derechas, tendremos que ir a una guerra civil declarada.

en la terminología general quedó este término para ellos, así como el de «rojos» para los republicanos. Pero el problema principal era que esa división en dos zonas, roja y nacional, no se correspondía exactamente con quienes estaban en ellas.

Sus compatriotas son refractarios a demasiadas cosas. Ni el fascismo ni el comunismo calan de verdad en ellos; he visto allí más oportunistas que gente con ideas firmes... Sólo el anarquismo encaja con su carácter, y eso los hace imprevisibles y peligrosos.

En marzo de 1812 se aprobó, tras acaloradas discusiones, la desdichada Constitución por la que España debería regirse… Esta cita, que procede de un libro de texto escolar editado siglo y medio más tarde, durante el franquismo, refleja la postura del sector conservador de las Cortes de Cádiz y la larga proyección que las ideas reaccionarias tendrían en el futuro.

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.

I knew i didn't know what the hell communism was, and yet i'd been dead set against it. Just like when you're a little kid and they get you to believe in the bogeyman. You don't know what the hell the bogeyman is, but you hate him and you're scared of him.

When someone asked me what communism was, i opened my mouth to answer, then realized i didn't have the faintest idea. My image of a communist came from a cartoon. It was a spy with a black trench coat and a black hat pulled down over his face, slinking around corners. In school, we were taught that communists worked in salt mines, that they weren't free, that everybody wore the same clothes, and that no one owned anything.

Anyone who is still attached to religious ideas and continues to hold to them cannot, therefore, in the nature of the case, be a member of the Communist Party.

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

is foolish to insist, as our leaders habitually do, that the violent acts of radical Islamists can be divorced from the religious ideals that inspire them. Instead we must acknowledge that they are driven by a political ideology, an ideology embedded in Islam itself, in the holy book of the Qur'an as well as the life and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad contained in the hadith. Let me make my point in the simplest possible terms: Islam is not a religion of peace.

Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." "If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place." "Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them." "You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them.

In this age, women like Khaled and Bouhired would certainly be called terrorists. But in the 1960s and 1970s, their popular appeal reflected a worldview that was more understanding of armed struggle. Such opposition, in those years, was seen as an expression of legitimate political aspirations—a symptom of asymmetrical conflict rather than evil ideology.

In 2015, the government redefined its thinking around counterterrorism, declaring that radicalism wasn't fueled by economic marginalization or political grievances, but by the ideology of conservative Islam. Prime Minister David Cameron set out the new approach in a speech that year: Britons who rejected "liberal values" were "providing succor" to violent extremists.

The cognitive aspect of ideology is rooted in the fact that knowledge and frameworks of interpretation are collective and cumulative human constructs.

Ideological clashes, antagonism, and fixations are as old as civilization.

The United States, the West, capitalism, liberalism, and democracy were collapsed into one and castigated in this sweeping discourse as the source of all evil or at least as no better than others. In some minds they still are.

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.

Paranoid nationalism may well be an intellectual void, and appeal to the lowest instincts—there is nothing in North Korean ideology that a child of twelve cannot grasp at once—but for that very reason it has proven itself capable of uniting citizens of all classes, and inspiring them through bad times as well as good ones.

Hunger has no ideology. It does not respond to party or to rant. Hunger, in short, is not a red state/blue state problem.

I don't like political rappers.

I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.

I'm excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to 'The Cycle.'

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.