Quotes About Ideology

All history is really nothing more than the application of ideology to the past.

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value.

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value.

Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth.

They've never held a job, power, or a girl's hand - The appeal for men to join ISIS, November, 2015.

Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.

Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing.

But the most insidious and dangerous of false religions is secular humanism. It's so crafty, so sneaky, with its kindness and its decency, that only Satan hisself could've come up with it.

Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion

Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas as well; it can dismiss the difficult, arduous work writers do to make an art that becomes and remains part of and significant within a human landscape.

The scholarship that looks into the mind, imagination, and behavior of slaves is valuable. But equally valuable is a serious intellectual effort to see what racial ideology does to the mind, imagination, and behavior of maters.

Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime labors. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long without one another.

dÄ›jiny nacismu – a v?bec vÅ¡ech forem totalitarismu – nelze plnÄ› pochopit, pokud je omezíme na vyprávÄ›ní o zlých lidech, kteÃ…â"¢í se vÄ›domÄ› a zámÄ›rnÄ› dopouÅ¡tÄ›jí zlo?in? s cílem páchat zlo

The victory of conservatism and the profound transformation brought about over the course of the next three decades was thus far from inevitable: it took an intellectual revolution.

since throughout the years 1945-49 a consistent majority of Germans believed that 'Nazism was a good idea, badly applied'.

Since anti-Communists ran the gamut from Trotskyists to neo-Fascists, critics of the USSR frequently found themselves sharing a platform or a petition with someone whose politics in other respects they abhorred. Such unholy alliances were a prime target for Soviet polemic and it was sometimes difficult to persuade liberal critics of Communism to voice their opinions in public for fear of being tarred with the brush of reaction.

This sort of faith was widespread in Kohout's generation. As Milosz would observe, Communism operated on the principle that writers need not think, they need only understand. And even understanding required little more than commitment, which was precisely what young intellectuals in the region were looking for.

enthusiasm for Communism in theory was characteristically present in inverse proportion to direct experience of it in practice.

the center of gravity of political argument in the years after 1945 lay not between left and right but rather within the left: between communists and their sympathizers and the mainstream liberal-social-democratic consensus.

Unsurprisingly, planning was most admired and advocated at the political extremes.

Since 1973, however, free-market theorists had re-emerged, vociferous and confident, to blame endemic economic recession and attendant woes upon 'big government' and the dead hand of taxation and planning that it placed upon national energies and initiative. In many places this rhetorical strategy was quite seductive to younger voters with no first-hand experience of the baneful consequences of such views the last time they had gained intellectual ascendancy, half a century before.

Marxismus je sekulární náboženství – to je evidentní. Ale které náboženství vlastnÄ› následuje, není vždycky zÃ…â"¢ejmé. Zahrnuje v sobÄ› velkou ?ást tradi?ní kÃ…â"¢esÃ…Â¥anské eschatologie: pád ?lovÄ›ka, MesiáÅ¡e, jeho utrpení, zástupné vykoupení lidstva, spásu, zmrtvýchvstání a tak dál.

the old ideological Left was part of the problem, not the solution. In

Above all, the new Left—and its overwhelmingly youthful constituency—rejected the inherited collectivism of its predecessor.