Quotes About Ideology

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

He had come to loathe these Air Force men with their commitment to building more and more bombs for the purpose of killing more and more millions of people. To his mind, they were so dangerous, so morally obtuse, that he almost welcomed them as political enemies. A few weeks later, Finletter and his people told the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy that it was an open question "whether [Oppenheimer] was a subversive.

The bottom line is that Robert always wished to be, and was, free to think for himself and to make his own political choices. Commitments have to be put in perspective to be understood, and the failure to do that was the most damaging characteristic of the McCarthy period. The most relevant political fact about Robert Oppenheimer was that in the 1930s he was devoted to working for social and economic justice in America, and to achieve this goal he chose to stand with the left.

He harshly criticized Soviet tyranny, but lamented the fact that so many Americans were willing to sacrifice their civil liberties in the name of anticommunism.

Oppenheimer's defeat was also a defeat for American liberalism.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

communism was in a rush, it had no time for bourgeois things like the past or the environment.

A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday," Bathhouse John pointed out. "A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.

I've always been intrigued by why people believe one thing over another.

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.

Thatcherism, as an ideology, addresses the fears, the anxieties, the lost identities, of a people. It invites us to think about politics in images. It is addressed to our collective fantasies, to Britain as an imagined community, to the social imaginary.

Iran is not a nation-state; it's a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.

Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.

Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant.

I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

The problem is not Hamas, the problem is not people. The root of the problem is Islam itself as an idea, as an idea. And about Hamas as an organization, of course, the Hamas leadership, including my father, they're responsible; they're responsible for all the violence that happened from the organization.

I'm fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibson's extraordinary work 'The Passion of the Christ' were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Islamic fundamentalism is attacking us at home.

The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

On the far left, just as there is on the far right there is a dislike of Israel, not just a dislike, a hatred of Israel.