Quotes About Ideology

I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

The problem is the far left isn't very good at governing.

It's no accident that the fastest growing states with the best economies are all led by Republican governors.

I follow the Hindutva of my father and grandfather.

The center of gravity of the American people is way to the left of the center of gravity of Congress and, in many ways, to the left of the national Democratic Party.

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

Barack Obama's political roots are liberal, but he has always resisted buying into the brand of liberalism that denigrates American greatness and potential.

The leftist vision of politics as a matter of rights begets an attitude of grievance and entitlement.

Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats.

When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.

No one should do politics in the guise of Hindutva and teach us what Hindutva is.

You can't win a battle against an idea with bombs, with guns, or militarily.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

If you have total government it makes little difference whether you call it Communism, Fascism, Socialism, Caesarism or Pharaohism. It's all pretty much the same from the standpoint of the people who must live and suffer under it.

Do not believe the Judeo-Christian lie!

Where possible, this [Foucault's] model of [localized] resistance is not an alternative to, but can compliment, macrological struggles along 'Marxist' lines. Yet if its situation is universalized, it accomodates unacknowledged privileging of the subject. Without a theory of ideology, it can lead to a dangerous utopianism.

Human ideology is the result: a tabloid concoction of religious conviction, political idealism, urban myth, tribal myth, wishful thinking, memorable anecdote, and pseudo-science.

Consumerism has become our most potent ideology because it so contemptuously dismisses our natual human modes of trait display, and it keeps us too busy -working, shopping. and product displaying- to remember what we can signal without all the products.

The story of the past generation has been that the right has won politically and the left has won culturally.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.

Carl Schmitt could boast with some justice that the Nazi revolution was orderly and disciplined. But the reason lies not so much within the Nazis themselves as in the lack of an effective opposition. For millions the Nazi ideology did assuage their anxiety, did end their alienation, and did give hope for a better future. Other millions watched passively, not deeply committed to resistance. Let them have a chance was a typical attitude. Hitler took the chance and made the most of it.