Quotes About Ideology

Apparently, only Communists get to make money in Cambodia.

Every dogma has its day.

If all you bastards are on the side of God then I'm glad I belong to the other shop.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.

Adorno treated popular culture as a ghastly trick played by capitalism on the masses.

After you knew him, he must have moved further to the Left – or would it be to the Right? Extremes of policy have such a tendency to merge.

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

the left's conviction that revolution and the coercive redistribution of wealth could produce universal happiness.

it was even said that Dolores Ibárruri, La Pasionaria, had bitten the jugular of a priest;

Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly

man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.

L'ideologie chrétienne n'a pas peu contribué à l'oppression de la femme.

In fact – and with very few exceptions – when a man joins a party, he submissively adopts a mental attitude which he will express later on with words such as, 'As a monarchist, as a Socialist, I think that . . .' It is so comfortable! It amounts to having no thoughts at all. Nothing is more comfortable than not having to think.

You see, we don't like murder as a way of argument—that's what really marks the Liberal!

Certainly Lewis failed—or refused—to sketch a solution to the threat of fascism. He was a social satirist, not a systematic political thinker or theorist. Worth

As a newspaper man, Doremus remembered that the only reporters who misrepresented and concealed facts more unscrupulously than the Capitalists were the Communists.

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism

Planst grow towards the light. Do people grow towards the light?" Tessa says, in that joking way she has. Professor Russell says mildly "Yes, my dear. I believe we do. We have, of course, many different kinds of light" Professor Russell continues, almost dreamily. "Sometimes our light might be a faith, or an ideology, or even a person, and we grow towards that.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

The less support an idea has,the more fervently it must be believed in, so that a totally preposterous idea requires unflinching faith.

You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.