Quotes About Ideology

Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.

Theory becomes realized among a people only in so far as it represents the realization of that people's needs.

Man makes religion, religion does not make Man

All I know is that I am not a Marxist

One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie.

A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism

The highest point reached by contemplative materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is contemplation of single individuals and of civil society. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life and his relations with his kind.

The charges against Communism made from a religious, a philosophical, and, generally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination.

The ruling ideas of each age have [n]ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

We're all Bolsheviks now," Izzie said blithely. "And at my table!" Hugh said and laughed.

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

A man lives by believing something.

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

...and it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

I am...wholeheartedly a Galbraith man.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.

The sexually insatiable woman is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.