Quotes About Ideology

Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.

The right don't have time off to go join protest marches as a career. The left has turned that into a bought-and-paid-for, rent-a-mob type activity.

My politics just kind of developed over time as a reaction.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.

To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

The word communist + a large bonfire + a collection of dead letters + the suffering of her mother + the death of her brother = the Führer

The dilemma, of course, was the communism. A single great idea. A thousand limits and flaws. Growing up, Penelope never noticed. What child ever does? There was nothing to compare it to.

Some fanatical Germans

The brown-shirted extremist members of the NSDAP (otherwise known as the Nazi Party) had marched down Munich Street, their banners worn proudly, their faces held high, as if on sticks. Their voices were full of song, culminating in a roaring rendition of Deutschland über Alles. Germany over Everything

But Hans Junior wasn't finished. He stepped closer and said, "You're either for the Führer or against him—and I can see that you're against him. You always have been." Liesel watched Hans Junior in the face, fixated on the thinness of his lips and the rocky line of his bottom teeth. "It's pathetic—how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great.

Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness — a savagery without stain.

Robert Conquest once suggested that 'a curious little volume might be made of the poems of Stalin, Castro, Mao and Ho Chi Minh, with illustrations by A. Hitler.

As I've already mentioned, 1984 and I were getting on famously. A no-frills setup, run without sentiment, snobbery or cultural favouritism, Airstrip One seemed like my kind of town. (I saw myself as an idealistic young corporal in the Thought Police.)

Q: What's the difference between a Communist car and a Communist proselytizer? A: You can close the door on a Communist proselytizer.