Quotes About Ideology

In life, loss was the engine that set Wilder's fiction in motion. Exile propelled the powerful emotional current of the Little House books, an intensely felt nostalgia for people and places lost to her. That emotion was absent in "Free Land," relegating it to homesteading soap opera. Its loosely linked anecdotes were joined not by familial love but by Lane's, and the Post 's, ideology.

Talk comes from ideology but action comes from outlook.

For example, I've talked about the lower middle class as the backbone of fascism in the future. I think this may happen. The party members of the Nazi Party in Germany were consistently lower middle class. I think that the right-wing movements in this country are pretty generally in this group.

Voodoo economics.

Faith preceded understanding, and so faith informed and shaped understanding. Working from this principle, Kuyper insisted that reason, natural science, and methodological naturalism were not ideologically neutral. Even the most technical of natural sciences, he observed, operated within the framework of the faith, or higher commitments, of the practitioner.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

On armageddon day,' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong.

The Communists are superb liars. They are quite capable of delivering a fat lie so convincingly, or at least vehemently, that even their victim will later apologize for having erred.

You know, I learned at a very early age that what kind of social system or political system prevails is very important. Not just for your well-being, but for your very survival. Because, you know, I could have been killed by the Nazis. I could have wasted my life under the Communists. So, that's what led me to this idea of an open society. And that is the idea that is motivating me.

Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

Forgetting takes a lot of work. You have to constantly remember that you are supposed to forget something. Surely, that's how every ideology functions.

Your grandmother had an icon, your mother had a little portrait of Lenin, and you have your TV.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water, like Pilate.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of the people tempered by fear.

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.