Quotes About Ideology

Y usted qué es, Óscar? de derechas o de izquierdas? - Óscar es ácrata, papá - cortó Marina El pedazo de pan se me atragantó. No sabía lo que significaba aquella palabra, pero sonaba a anarquista en bicicleta.

Legions of men, butchered for the greater glory and the profit margins of bankers, chancellors, generals, stockbrokers, and other fathers of the nation, had been maimed and ruined for life in the name of freedom, democracy, the Empire, the race, or the flag…. Take your pick.

Why are books burned? Through stupidity, ignorance, hatred...goodness only knows.

Question: What will happen after Cuba builds communism? Answer: It will start importing sugar. Question: What's the difference between capitalism and communism? Answer: Under capitalism, man exploits man; under communism, it's the other way around)

The BJP lacks the sense of history.

Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.

Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.

I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House.

I was a member of the young liberals, the young conservatives, and young Labour, according to who gave the best parties.

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

Islamists and their sympathizers hate us, and they will not stop hating us until we convert to ancient Islam. There is no middle ground or accommodation.

It is the RSS and the BJP that have always initiated political violence in our midst; not just in Kerala, but in the entire country.

Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.

I was a militant.

Military force can't defeat ideology.

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s.

I don't just want to show how somebody might be wrong;I want to know why people believe the things they believe in the first place. I want to understand the mindset that would lead somebody toward the alt-right.

I wasn't a party apparatchik. I think too many of today's people in both parties come forward, university, 'What party will I join? Oh, yes, I know somebody here. I might get a job working for this member or for that shadow minister or minister.'

You can transform your nation into a prison because you are committed to an ideology.

President Obama's postpartisan pitch fell flat, and the Tea Party movement pulled the GOP further to its ideological pole. Republicans greeted the new president with a unified strategy of opposing, obstructing, discrediting, and nullifying every one of his important initiatives.

Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn't know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist, I simply decided by process of elimination that I must be a Rush Limbaughian.

But when I think of how many there are to whose designs it will be advantageous that these principles should be false, when I see that those who maintain contrary doctrines are not corrected, even though they have been punished by a civil war, when I see that the best minds are nourished by the seditious doctrines of the ancient Greeks and Romans, I fear that this writing of mine will be numbered with Plato's Republic, More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, and similar amusements of the mind.