Quotes About Ideology

No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.

The inability to rise above one's inherited ism and ideology makes one live and die a fool, just a folly.

Not God, but man-made gods kill, by self-will.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Today Christians... stand at the head of Germany... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian Spirit.

I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.

Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.

Por qué los principales pensadores posmodernos son políticamente de izquierda, y en la mayoría de los casos de extrema izquierda? ¿Y por qué ese prominente segmento de la izquierda, la misma izquierda que tradicionalmente defendía sus posiciones con los fundamentos modernos de la razón, la ciencia, la justicia para todos y el optimismo, es ahora vocera de posturas antirazón, anticiencia, del vale todo en la guerra y en el amor, y del cinismo?

In other words, the Germans were continuing to place a large bet on Bolshevism, while at the same time containing it and extracting advantage.

Bolshevik socialism (anticapitalism) attracted and gave meaning to the shock-troop activists, supplied the vocabulary and worldview of millions in the party and beyond, and achieved a monopoly over the public sphere, but this same politically empowering ideology afforded no traction over the international situation or the faltering quasi-market domestic economy.

Pitiless class warfare formed the core of Lenin's thought—the

Socialism, like every other impassioned human effort, will flourish best under martyrdom. It will languish and perish in the dry sunlight of open discussion.

Muslim extremists and their gunmen, of what could be called the Koran Kalashnikov Klan (KKK), as fanatical as white supremacists in the Ku Klux Klan, are seen as a mortal danger.

to him Marx and Rand were the same because he went by pant size

The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being achieved when in reality the artificially integrated circles are a soporific to the blacks while salving the consciences of the few guilt-stricken whites.

The potency of Al Qaeda's ideas and tactics further challenged a Pakistani state that was weak, divided, complacent, and complicit about Islamist ideology and violence. These consequences were not fully apparent that December, but they would rapidly metastasize.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

Their dealings were grounded not in ideology, but pragmatic common interest—the seeds of which were money and power. The

My kids can do whatever they want as long as they are not Republicans or junkies. That is where I draw the line.

So now that the pretense of neutrality has been more or less abandoned, and is on its way to being forgotten, what is the substance of the perspective (or ideology or, perhaps, religion) that is now fully exposed to view—and not merely to the view of its critics? And what shall we call it? In the book you are now reading, Steven Smith sets for himself the task of describing and analyzing it, and he gives it a name: paganism.

If you go into an academic institution with a clean slate, you are very likely to come out a liberal. That is a huge problem.