Quotes About Ideology

decisions were often made because of ideology and politics. As a result many wrong-headed actions were taken, ones that did not solve the problem at hand but that fit with the interests or beliefs of the people in power.

My study of economics had taught me that the ideology of many conservatives was wrong; their almost religious belief in the power of markets—so great that we could largely simply rely on unfettered markets for running the economy—had no basis in theory or evidence.

Mikhailovsky

Our starting point is not the individual: We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked … Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world.

all of them are ideologues, and the ideology is, quite simply put, global domination by a self-appointed elite.

Es gibt ja keine verrücktere Idee, behauptete Tweedie weiter, als zu glauben, es gebe zwei Kategorien von Frauen: anständige und unanständige.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

acusaron de defender "el comunismo de la propiedad".

I have sworn before a portrait of the late lamented comrade Stalin that I will not rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.

Ä°fade özgürlüÄŸü bir mitten baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸil.

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

We would define a belief as a thought you continue to think.

And suddenly the driver remembered how he'd once promised himself that if he became God in the end, he'd be merciful and kind, and would listen to all His creatures. So when he saw Eddie from way up in his driver's seat, he simply couldn't go through with it, and in spite of all his ideology and his simple arithmetic, he opened the door, and Eddie got on

Most of the human race, by one means or other, are prepossessed with principles opposed to the religion of reason.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

It could be argued that positive psychology is little more than ideology recycled in the form of charts, tables, and number-filled diagrams; an easily marketable pop psychology touted by scientists in white coats.

There are not enough purple states. No one votes in primaries, except the most ideological. And big money comes in to support or oppose the candidates in those primaries.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

When you go after someone who has a deep ideological belief set that is contradictory with your own, it's conversion. Conversion is hard. Conversion is miraculous. We have entire religions built around the idea of conversion. Politics is not a religion. Politics is about persuasion.

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.