Quotes About Ideology

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist.

If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.

The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war

The unwillingness to give a hearing to contradictory viewpoints, or to imagine that one might learn anything from an ideological or cultural opponent, represents a departure from the best side of American popular and elite intellectual traditions.