Quotes About Ideology

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

There are no more liberals They've all been mugged.

Because of my politics, I don't necessarily think that the independent capitalist is that much better than the multinational capitalist; it's just that the independent capitalist hasn't grown as big yet.

A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.

I believe the Islamic ideology is a retarded, dangerous one, but I make a distinction. I don't hate people. I don't hate Muslims.

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

We are in a conflict, whether we like it or not. I think we have to identify the enemy and call it by its name. And the enemy is an ideology rooted in militant Islam.

Republicans don't vote Republican because of Nancy Pelosi. They vote Republican because they are Republicans.

On social questions, national defense, economic issues, I'm a strong conservative.

Cuba is exporting communism throughout the hemisphere and throughout the world, and has been doing it for decades - and that's something that should interest the national security of the United States.

I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist. I'm an economic nationalist.

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

I don't think the alt-right would call me alt-right. They call me alt-lite, usually. I just consider myself a nationalist or a traditionalist.

Obama confuses collective action and defence through Nato with the integration at all costs and damn the consequences ideology that too often motivates the E.U.

Offer, a transplanted Israeli who came to Oxford after serving as a soldier in the 1967 war, said that the effectiveness of an ideology is measured by the amount of coercion it takes to keep a ruling elite in power. Reality, when it does not conform to the reigning ideology, he said, has to be "forcibly aligned." The amount of coercion needed to make society adhere to the model is "a rough measure of the model's validity.

Bulgakov and Roth understood that there is no real political ideology among decayed ruling elites. Political debate and ideological constructs for these elites are just so much absurdist theater, a cynical species of public spectacle and mass entertainment. These systems, like our own, are organized kleptocracies.

Alors que les hommes généralement se contentent de croire, les philosophes veulent savoir ; mais, pour savoir, il faut juger, critiquer, mesurer, exclure, imaginer, bref effectuer un travail de l'esprit dont les religions et les idéologies permettent l'économie.

The cell wanted to overthrow the government and to do that, they were hurting their own people. Draden had never seen the logic in that, how could they convince themselves that what they were doing was justified because they believed in the endgame.

There is a tendency on the left, to think if someone in any way disagrees with the left it must be for the lowest possible reason and if you found the lowest possible motive you have found the right one. Theres this whole culture of no one would leave us or quarrel with us if they weren't a sellout. It is actually a very sick mentality and very widespread.

The North Korean state was born at about the same time that Nineteen Eighty-Four was published, and one could almost believe that the holy father of the state, Kim Il Sung, was given a copy of the novel and asked if he could make it work in practice. Yet even Orwell did not dare to have it said that Big Brother's birth was attended by miraculous signs and portents - such as birds hailing the glorious event by singing in human words.

Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him.

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.