Quotes About Ideology

I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics.

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

There are nutters across every political and religious spectrum; it goes without saying.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great, the government always screws things up, let's get the government out of the way.' On the foreign policy side it was, 'Communism is bad, and we're going to defeat it.'

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

A French Republican is a Republican who beats up on conservatives and is constantly praising the Democrats and contributing to the massive spending in this country while they go home and pretend otherwise.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don't have to do it physically.

I started, you know, to work as a diplomat during the Soviet days, and in spite of ideology being very high on the Communist Party agenda, I can assure you that in practical terms, we have always been trying to be pragmatic.

If you are ideologically opposed to income splitting for families, why wouldn't you scrap it for seniors? What is the distinguishing principle between income splitting for people with kids and income splitting for people who are retired?

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

My parents, they were both Socialists; they were young - 30, 31. They were both successful career people. They had been teachers, and my dad spoke English.

I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

Man's best friend is his dogma.