Quotes About Ideology

I didn't believe that the Soviet Union would ever break down.

We are still living with the ideology of compromise, not with the ideology of recognition

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

Karl Marx, un visionario, entendió que podemos controlar mejor a un esclavo convenciéndolo de que es un empleado.

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative," John Stuart Mill once complained.

people look for books that support their mental program.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

They are not people--they are ideas. They are just extensions of the enemy.

truth and conviction are not comfortable bedfellows, and what one believes will often cast out that which is true.

She can't recall whether these were the colors of the pro-life or pro-choice forces, but then, it doesn't really matter. Both sides lost.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

people who believe in politics are like people who believe in god: they are sucking wind through bent straws. there

The basic thing about the Amazon is that these people had a long-term period to learn about and experience and benefit from their knowledge of the environment," Meggers said. "Any group that over-exploited their environment was going to be dead. The ones that survived, the knowledge got built into their ideology and behavior with taboos and other kinds of things.

his tract The Road to Survival (1948), the first modern we're-all-going-to-hell book. Road was meant as a warning bell, based on objective science, but it was also an implicit vision of how we should live: a moral testament. Vogt was the first to put together, in modern form, the principal tenets of environmentalism, the twentieth century's only successful, long-lasting ideology.

After all, if there is one person a fanatic is predisposed to hate, it's a moderate who is almost but not completely aligned with their program.

I didn`t change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.

Bankrupt corporate capitalism is on its way to bankrupting the socialism that is trying to save it

Useless DECEMBER 7, 2009     Liberals are a useless lot.

Now the battle against communism has been reconfigured. The seat of Satan is no longer in the Kremlin. It has been assumed by individuals and institutions promoting a rival religion called "secular humanism.

Propaganda has become a substitute for ideas and ideology. Knowledge is confused with how we are made to feel. Commercial brands are mistaken for expressions of individuality. And in this precipitous decline of values and literacy, among those who cannot read and those who have given up reading, fertile ground for a new totalitarianism is being seeded.

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed," Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism.67

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exists. HANNAH ARENDT, The Origins of Totalitarianism