Quotes About Ideology

Every culture and era flatters itself that we are finally seeing what previous eras and cultures could not see because of their own blinders and ideological lenses. To admit that we are in some sense no different from tenth-century peasants is unacceptable to most of us. It may be offensive. To accept it may take real courage.

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

Under Marxism] Christ the Redeemer is replaced by the steam engine as the promise of the realm to come.

The spirit as system requires the murder of God; and, conversely, in order to commit the murder of God the system is fashioned.

Popper is philosophically so uncultured, so fully a primitive ideological brawler, that he is not able to even approximately to reproduce correctly the contents of one page of Plato. Reading is of no use to him; he is too lacking in knowledge to understand what the author says.

Nevertheless, it is true that the first discipline encountered by a young man is the one he must somehow identify with unless he chooses to remain unidentified in his years of need. The discipline he happens to encounter, however, may turn out to be poor ideological fare; poor in view of what, as an individual, he has not yet derived from his childhood problems, and poor in view of the irreversible decisions which begin to crowd in on him.

Modifying Clausewitz' aphorism—war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means—one could say that in ideologically divided countries civil war is but the continuation of parliamentarism with other means.

I have noticed that this kind of fanatic, like every other kind, is in two species: the species which too clearly thinks out its own insane theory, and the species which remains perfectly muddle-headed.

Nor have I met any man in my life, arguing for what should be among men, but took for granted as he argued that the doctrine he consciously or unconsciously accepted was or should be a similar foundation for all mankind. Hence battle.

A fanatic who is willing to die for his cause thinks nothing of killing you for his cause.

The conservatives running the government have always been against the exploration of Mars. What we've found goes against their religious beliefs.

If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.

By the end of 1946 Philby had achieved something no other spy could boast: the award of three separate medals from nationalist Spain, the communist Soviet Union, and Britain.

As so often in the history of communism, the bloodshed came not from external forces but through vicious infighting.

I doubted that my words would have the weight of Greenspan's, and in any case it seemed to me that Congress is ruled first and foremost by interests and ideology, not by the advice of experts or supposed experts, including the chairman of the Fed.

I still considered myself a conservative.

I thought of myself as a moderate Republican—liberal on social issues,

It is the left that uses the clubs of race and class to attack those on the right; it is the left that labels religious people and traditional values people rubes and simpletons,

It's far more common for leftists to routinely pick up weapons and try to kill those with whom they disagree than it is for those on the other side of the ideological spectrum.

If Obama learned one thing from FDR, it was that every socialist needs his foot soldiers.

You may notice when arguing with someone on the left that every time you begin to make a point, that leftist begins shouting

That's the way it will go because that's how the left wins: through intimidation and cruelty. You

This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you.

The attempt [by the far-left] to boil down fascism to 'anything I don't like' is simply idiotic. Which is more fascist: Christina Hoff Sommers coming to speak about the lies of the feminist movement, or the people who are suggesting that they should actually be able to shut down her lecture by use of force? That seems a little more fascist to me.