Quotes About Ideology

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

President Obama is perhaps the most ideologically-motivated president in American history. But according to the ultimate authority, Barack Obama, he's a mere pragmatist.

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.

Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens to hold one is hounded out of a job, and I will show you a university that isn't a university but an ideological prison camp and indoctrination centre.

Dick Armey is an economic conservative. He is not a social conservative. He doesn't like to talk about marriage and about the unborn child, the sanctity of life and things like that. He wants to talk about smaller government.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

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.

Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.