Quotes About Ideology

In Marx's entire oeuvre, I don't think there is a single disinterested reflection on death... I was pondering this at his grave in Highgate.

You can turn me into dust but you can neither kill nor can suppress my ideology. Rather my ideology will spread with greater intense after my death.

Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a "gift," was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I had not been aware of before—one that encourages us to deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate.

Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it.

Inevitably, as hatred of monarchy was added to hatred of episcopacy, they were led to republicanism.

Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The "religious freedom" promoted by Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, the Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Religious Right of Ken Ham and Tony Perkins is a fraud and a scam; it is antithetical to true freedom of conscience and belief.

Myth is depoliticized speech.

I realized that liberals were actually the racists. Liberals were actually the trolls.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

I draw attention to the problems that the Islamic ideology brings to our country, and I think that's a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

When China was only Communist, everyone received the Dalai Lama, but now that China is hyper-capitalist, he gets blacked out.

I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you look in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules for - basic rules for a system of economics or politics.' If you look in the Oxford, it says that, and then it says... 'Despite - and people will hold these propositions despite events.'

There isn't a day when I don't look in the mirror and think, 'How in the hell did I become a conservative Republican?' It's still a weird reckoning, because it shouldn't have happened.

I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

I make a clear distinction between the people and the ideology, between Muslims and Islam, recognizing that there are many moderate Muslims.

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

Arizona is a red state, and we're going to keep it red.

What I was really saying in 'The Examined Life' was that I was no longer as hardcore a libertarian as I had been before.

If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.