Quotes About Ideology

The soul willing to transform, as deeply as necessary, is the most effective enemy of the demonic serpents of ideology and totalitarianism, in their personal and social forms.

The attraction of doing so is, however, obvious: simplicity, ease, and the illusion of mastery (which can have exceptionally useful psychological and social consequences, particularly in the short term)—and, let us not forget, the frequent discovery of a villain, or set of villains, upon which the hidden motivations for the ideology can be vented.

A totalitarian never asks, "What if my current ambition is in error?" He treats it, instead, as the Absolute. It becomes his God, for all intents and purposes. It constitutes his highest value. It regulates his emotions and motivational states, and determines his thoughts. All people serve their ambition. In that matter, there are no atheists. There are only people who know, and don't know, what God they serve.

If they fine me, I won't pay it. If they put me in jail, I'll go on a hunger strike. I'm not doing this. That's that. I am not using the words other people require me to use especially if they are made up by radical left-wing ideologues.

One of the major contributions of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, The Gulag Archipelago, was his analysis of the direct causal relationship between the pathology of the Soviet prison-work-camp dependent state (where millions suffered and died) and the almost universal proclivity of the Soviet citizen to falsify his own day-to-day personal experience, deny his own state-induced suffering, and thereby prop up the dictates of the rational, ideology-possessed communist system.

It has been said that every individual is the conscious or unconscious follower of some influential philosopher.

Solzhenitsyn's writing utterly and finally demolished the intellectual credibility of communism, as ideology or society. He took an axe to the trunk of the tree whose bitter fruits had nourished him so poorly—and whose planting he had witnessed and supported

An ideological theory explains everything: all the past, all the present, and all the future. This means that an ideologue can consider him or herself in possession of the complete truth (something forbidden to the self-consistent fundamentalist). There is no claim more totalitarian and no situation in which the worst excesses of pride are more likely to manifest themselves (and not only pride, but then deceit, once the ideology has failed to explain the world or predict its future).

The paintings were not there because Jordan had any totalitarian sympathies, but because he wanted to remind himself of something he knew he and everyone would rather forget: that over a hundred million people were murdered in the name of utopia.

The single axioms of the ideologically possessed are gods, served blindly by their proselytizers.

tedious, ideology-ridden professors.

Furthermore, when their social contraptions fail to fly, ideologues blame not themselves but all who see through the simplifications.

What my client was perceiving—at least as far as she was concerned—was not a single event, hypothetically capable of heading those involved in it down a dangerous path, but a clearly identifiable and causally related variety or sequence of events, all heading in the same direction. Those events seemed to form a coherent pattern, associated with an ideology that was directional in its intent, explicitly and implicitly.

This kind of oversimplification and falsification is particularly typical of ideologues. They adopt a single axiom: government is bad, immigration is bad, capitalism is bad, patriarchy is bad. Then they filter and screen their experiences and insist ever more narrowly that everything can be explained by that axiom. They believe, narcissistically, underneath all that bad theory, that the world could be put right, if only they held the controls.

Jordan B. Peterson

one of the matters he cautions readers to be most wary of is ideology, no matter who is peddling it or to what end.

But at least she didn't leave as the living embodiment of my damned ideology.

Ser de la izquierda es, como ser de la derecha, una de las infinitas maneras que el hombre puede elegir para ser un imbécil.

que nuestra ideología es sólo para consumo interno». El comunismo —o, más bien, la aspiración a construir el comunismo— había muerto con Jrushchov.

La visión del mundo que pretendían establecer los norteamericanos se basaba en la convicción de la superioridad del «modo de vida americano»,[35] asociada a la idea de que su componente religioso era una garantía de su ventaja moral sobre «el comunismo ateo».

el objetivo fundamental de la guerra fría fue en realidad, por una y otra parte, el de asegurar y extender a escala mundial un determinado orden político, económico y social, disfrazándolo como un combate entre «el mundo libre» y el «socialismo».

el modo de vida americano» (lo que tanto en Truman como en su sucesor, Eisenhower, aparece ligado a la religión; el enemigo es «el comunismo ateo»),

Nunca se ha empleado, en cambio, el término «capitalismo», que era el que usaban para definirlo sus enemigos del llamado bando socialista. Incluso hoy, al cabo de tantos años de acabada la guerra fría, se mantiene el tabú:

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.