Quotes About Ideology

How can conservatives love their country, love their system of government, love the founders of their government, but resent and often hate the government itself?

We can now see clearly why liberal arguments for social programs can make no sense at all to conservatives, whether they are arguments on the basis of compassion, fairness, wise investment, financial responsibility, or outright self-interest.

What is punishment and theft to conservatives is civic duty and fairness to liberals. There

Unlike the right, the left does not think strategically. We think issue by issue.

Conservatives deny that the private depends on public resources. Citing Ronald Reagan's credo that "The Government is the Problem," conservatives are constantly trying to eliminate public resources and to privatize as much as possible.

the right wing is attempting to impose a strict father ideology on America and, ultimately, the rest of the world.

There are three principal conservative descriptions of conservatism. 1. Conservatism is against big government. 2. Conservatism is for traditional values. 3. Conservatism is just what the Bible tells us. We

The progressive world has not caught up. And what is worse is a set of myths believed by liberals and progressives.

The scientific facts about global warming are stated and restated day after day around the country, but they fall on conservative deaf brains—brains with frames that don't fit those facts.

Biconceptualism is central to our politics, and it is vital to understand how it works.

But for conservatives, the very idea that the private depends on the public is anathema—immoral.

In contemporary America, politics and personhood are inseparable—and apparently moving in a conservative direction.

Because of the effect of language and imagery on the brain, the constant use of one ideology's language over the other's has an enormous effect on our politics.

Remember that there is no ideology of the moderate—no set of views held by all moderates.

Progressive and conservative worldviews contradict each other. Both are characterized in the brain via neural circuitry.

From China and India to Turkey and Brazil, when women have gotten access to education, to family planning and to a vital place in the economy, greater prosperity has followed. And when women are free to speak and learn, they temper the extremes of ideology and fanaticism and raise sons who are less likely to become human bombs.

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism, it seemed that the liberal story had won. The liberal story says that humankind is inevitably marching towards a global society of free markets and democratic politics.

Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.

If you don't like the word 'religion,' you can replace it with 'ideology' - it's largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from.

I am against the word 'anti' because it's a little bit like 'atheist,' as compared to 'believer.' And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is.