Quotes About Ideology

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

It is a war of religion as much as a war for power.

My father, the colonel, is for the king; yours for the Parliament.

Comunismul pune la îndoial? totul ?i respinge orice proiect care l-a precedat. Singurul lucru pe care comunismului nu-l pune la îndoial? este proiectul propriu. De aceea comunismul se instaleaz? dintr-o dat? în prostia ca încremenire în proiect

Ura lui Cain nu era educata, iar Cain, in pornirea lui, nu are cand sa-si sistematizeze afectul. Cain uraste ca un barbar si el omoara fara sa treaca in prealabil prin teritoriul intelectualului si al intemeierilor teoretice. Pe scurt, crima lui Cain nu beneficiaza de aportul intelectualului apt sa organizeze ura. Ea nu are o ideologie.

Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.

This is what we call political fundamentalism: a vision of the political world in which all goodness and truth lie on one side.

The Southerners, he concluded, "seceded over one thing and fought over one thing, slavery.

many of these left wing idiots tried to fight Kellen and his Nazi followers using logic and rational arguments. Are you kidding me? That shit never works. What the country needed was someone who would make fun of them for the idiotic, small dick, insecure, evil fucks that they were.

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

Every story is informed by a worldview.

Die Parteispitze, die Intelligenz – alle rockten und rollten durch die Gegend, und unsere braven stinklangweiligen DDR-Lipsi hatten restlos verloren. Ein wenig befremdend ist es immer wieder für mich, zu sehen, wie Genossen ihre Häute abwerfen und schwache Menschen werden. (Ich hab so einen netten Kinderglauben an die Kraft von Ideen, die den Menschen auch in seinem tiefsten Innern verwandeln. Aber nein, man spürt nichts davon.

Karl Marx had said, 'Give me twenty-six lead soldiers and I will conquer the world,' meaning of course the twenty-six letters of the alphabet.

One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer understanding of the movement, its origins, and our adversaries' mindset. The nuances are absolutely critical. Our adversaries are wedded to the ideology that informs and fuels their struggle, and, by not paying attention, we risk not knowing our enemy.

You will soon be released into an area that has been ideologically decriminalized

W miejsce d?umy, co zala? mia?a ca?y ?wiat, a oczy?ci?a tylko plac pod nasz? budowl?, wzniecimy wielk? zaraz? idei, która morzem oczyszczaj?cego ognia rozleje si? po starym kontynencie, drwi?c z armij, kordonów i granic.

It is no accident that both of the substitutes for religion that Hoffer names—nationalism and social revolution—are political. Political/economic ideology is the religion of modernity. Like the adherents of traditional religion, many people find comfort in their political worldview, and greet critical questions with pious hostility.50 Instead of crusades or inquisitions, the twentieth century had its notorious totalitarian movements.

The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Often dogma masks a lack of true faith, so I can't say that it interests me much.

To emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to deemphasize their genocide, is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice. It serves—unwittingly—to justify what was done.

party politics and religion now substituting for class conflict.