Quotes About Ideology

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

If the left wing was to rule, the result would be misery, terror and death, like it happens in every place where communism rules.

Mao has never accepted the failure of the "Great Leap". As one of the texts reproduced below demonstrates, he would have preferred to see China perish from famine rather than readjust his own vision or recognize his mistakes.

Ideology must be our foundation as it was for the Bolsheviks, but the new archives show that the personalities and patronage of a minuscule oligarchy were the essence of politics under Lenin and Stalin, as they were under the Romanov emperors—and just as they are today under the 'managed democracy' of twenty-first-century Russia.

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

institutionalized and raised to an amoral Bolshevik faith with messianic fervour.

the often bizarre, daft and self-defeating trajectory of the last Romanovs can be understood only through their ideology: sacred autocracy.

There are two lines here: one holds a course for victory of revolution…the other doesn't believe in revolution and counts merely on staying as an opposition…

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and dogmas of every ideology became as worn as that book's cover.

American feminism has always had a puritanical strain, an imposed blindness to erotic truth.

Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.

In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'

McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

Fidel Castro gave it all to make his nation serviceable to all who desire real change. That's why I love Fidel Castro, and that's why he will never die.

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

A lot of liberals don't believe in American exceptionalism, but it doesn't mean they don't love America.

There's one place where (Fidel Castro's) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!

Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.

They are embracing the kind of extremism personified in the past, in their different ways, by the likes of Joe McCarthy, Barry Goldwater, Strom

This was a time when university profs were getting hit from both sides; the right with their creationist agenda, and the left who'd suddenly realized the connection between science and war.

thing about you is your belief system.