Quotes About Ideology

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now.

The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them.

Let us not be deceived - we are today in the midst of a cold war.

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

Socialism is a dead horse.

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.

A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children.

Omar directed the Umma for ten years, and during that time he set the course of Islamic theology, he shaped Islam as a political ideology, he gave Islamic civilization its characteristic stamp, and he built an empire that ended up bigger than Rome. Any one of these achievements could have earned him a place in a who's who of history's most influential figures; the sum of them make him something like a combination of Saint Paul, Karl Marx, Lorenzo di Medici, and Napoleon.

but I was thinking of the people who make a religion out of something completely different. Like money—actually, that's the nearest thing the government has to an ideology, and I'm not talking about bribes, Sam. Nowadays it's not just unfortunate if you have a low-paid job, have you noticed? It's actually irresponsible: you're not a good member of society, you're being very very naughty not to have a big house and a fancy car.

Toronto's already ass-deep in cockroaches and conservatives; what's one more lower life-form?

Belief! That was always a big problem. Marxism as a surrogate religion with its prophets and popes. Look where it has got us. You believe? You have no right to believe. You must not believe…

Mr. Forbes opened his eyes. "If you'll let me, sir," he said sharply. "Were you ever a member of the Communist Party? Are you a member now?" My father leaned back in his chair. "No, son, I'm a Republican," he replied.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

The war against radical Salafi-Jihadism has been going on for several decades already and it will span many more and the U.S. must be preparing mentally for it.

One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new liberal language, it has adopted the age-old default mode of British foreign policy, namely military intervention.

The president is the face of the State of Israel around the world: not a representative of a specific ideology but of the collective creativity and history of the Jewish people.