Quotes About Ideology

Ze wilde hun vertellen dat achter het communisme, achter het fascisme, achter alle bezettingen en invallen een wezenlijker en algemener kwaad schuilde; het beeld van dat kwaad is voor haar een optocht van marcherende mensen geworden die de handen heffen en eenstemmig dezelfde lettergrepen schreeuwen. Maar ze wist dat ze hun niet kon uitleggen. Verlegen bracht ze het gesprek op een ander onderwerp.

behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison.

ideology was like a set of enormous wheels at the back of the stage, turning and setting in motion wars, revolutions, reforms. The wheels of immunology turn without having any effect upon History.

What had attracted, even infatuated me, about the communist movement was the feeling, however illusory, of being close to the 'helm of history.

Quería comprobar si la tristeza, sobre la cual el poderoso ideólogo afirmaba que es enfermiza y perjudicial, podía darme, con su con consonancia, algún alegría (porque, en mi situación, difícilmente podía buscar la alegría en la alegría)

Los extremismos son la frontera tras la cual termina la vida, y la pasión por el extremismo en el arte y en la política es una velada ansia de muerte.»

Los extremos son la frontera tras la cual termina la vida y la pasión por el extremismo en el arte y en la política es una velada ansia de muerte

I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

Commies love concrete.

I don't believe in Jesus or God. But I do believe that fundamentalists in religion or anything else are bad, and that they have more hate than love.

The right-wing just loves making a big entrance.

Green Day is politically brain-dead but I love the little monkeys.

I love the Tea Party. They are the ultimate beer goggles. They make everything look better.

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

I was now looking at a new kind of liberalism, one that willingly censored people and punished voices, obstructed opinions and blocked viewpoints.

What Kanye was championing in his Trump tweets was an idea of peace and unity, imagining a place where different sides could work together despite vicious ideological differences—that's it. He wasn't particularly interested in actual politics or literal policy, but it also seemed by the end of the summer of 2018 that no one else was, either.

This was why it seemed to many of us in that summer that the Left was morphing into something it never had been in my lifetime: a morally superior, intolerant and authoritarian party that was out of touch and lacked any coherent ideology beyond its blanket refusal to credit an election in which someone they didn't approve of had, at least legally, technically, won the White House. The Left had become a rage machine, burning itself up: a melting blue bubble dissolving in on itself.

Liberalism used to concern itself with freedoms I'd aligned myself with, but during the 2016 campaigns, it finally hardened into a warped authoritarian moral superiority movement that I didn't want to have anything to do with.

By joining the anti-abortion movement, the once guilty are propelled from deep moral unease to a secure position of moral innocence and superiority, with the added social bonding that comes from uniting against a shared enemy whom they depict as murderous and vile. That's quite a set of perks for a very low price of membership (namely, agreeing to vote Republican in the United States—or its counterparts elsewhere).

Hayek later decided that what really separated him from his friend Keynes was that the latter always believed that certain advanced thinkers (Keynes among them, of course) could skillfully and accurately manipulate the social order to their own ends, without ill effects.

Il Canonico rispose che lui non era affatto d'idee larghe e che, per dire il vero, questo non gli dispiaceva, perché la larghezza d'idee spesso non era altro che superficialità.

Communists cannot possibly do without God what Christians have failed to do with God.

Why in the world are you a Republican?