Quotes About Ideology

If had to label myself, I guess classical liberal would be best.

Neoconservatism' once had a real meaning - back in the 1970s. But the label has now become meaningless. With many of those who are described as neocons, including me, fleeing the Trumpified right, the term's sell-by date has passed.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

My nan was very active in the Labour Party in the 1980s, her politics are way to the left of mine, she used to do crazy things.

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

The greatest betrayal of the liberal left in this country is by the Labour party.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

As things stand today capitalist civilization cannot continue; we must either move forward into socialism or fall back into barbarism.

Nachdem er sich in der anarchistischen Partei unmöglich gemacht hatte, blieb ihm nichts mehr übrig, als ein nützliches Mitglied der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft zu werden und in die Sozialdemokratie einzutreten.

ideology signifies a phenomenon intermediate between a simple lie at one pole, and an error, which is the result of a distorted and faulty conceptual apparatus, at the other.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.

Indeed, he said as late as 1976 that he would have remained a socialist all his life if he had thought that it was possible to reconcile socialist egalitarianism with freedom.

Scientific' Marxism is dead. Its feeling of social responsibility and its love for freedom must survive.

When the Marxists say, as they sometimes do, that Marx has proved the uselessness of a counter cycle policy and of similar piecemeal measures, then they simply do not speak the truth; Marx investigated an unrestrained capitalism, and he never dreamt of interventionism.

I believe in traditional marriage.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.