Quotes About Ideology

We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.

Senator Blunt genuinely sees everything through the lens of partisan politics.

Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that nothing matters to them other than partisanship.

Partisanship is nothing new. I grew up in a household where appliances that broke had 'gone Democrat.'

Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.

In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.

For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party.

As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

Jeremy Corbyn... love him. Right person, right time. He's like a poultice, drawing Blairite disease out of the Labour party.

Party politics are quite upsetting. I've been a member of the Labour party, the Green party, the Women's Equality Party, the National Health Action Party and now I'm not a member of any.

I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.

Glenn Beck is Rush redux - Limbaugh with liposuction, partying like it's still 1993.

Germanic mythology, reinforced by all sorts of occult ideas, evidently became for him a kind of substitute religion.

Just outside Tehran we passed a sign that said, 'Servitude is never accepted in an ideology that believes in Martyrdom'. Below was a picture of a white dove copping a bullet in the heart.

Lies had always been an integral part of Nazi propaganda. Whether he was convinced that lies were justified by the greater ends they served or whether he had become incapable through his years of power and his closeness to Hitler of separating wish from sober calculation, falsehood is surely indivisible.

Himmler was, as he had always been, merely the most extreme, emotionally committed exponent of the orthodoxy of the master race.

The sheer amount of ideological conflicts playing out within the text hints at the fact that the writers were writing about a reality that could not be reduced to one description, a reality that was testified to better in the clash of perspectives than in the development of a single, finely honed one. The text was written not to be approached as an academic document detailing facts about the life of faith but rather as an invitation into the life of faith.

Cynicism is enlightened false consciousness. It is that modernized, unhappy consciousness, on which enlightenment has labored both successfully and in vain. It has learned its lessons in enlightenment, but it has not, and probably was not able to, put them into practice. Well-off and miserable at the same time, this consciousness no longer feels affected by any critique of ideology; its falseness is already reflexively buffered.

fact, almost everything that was philosophically articulated in the nineteenth century and the twentieth, from the Young Hegelians to French Existentialism, from the early Socialists to Critical Theory, grew in the conservatories of a second romantic loser atmosphere.

They think they're really sticking it to you, but they're being—herded. Into the service of agendas they'd never support in a thousand years, if they only knew. And they're dedicated, Daniel. They're ferocious. They fight your wars with a passion you could never buy and never coerce, because they're doing it out of pure ideology.

Millones de personas en el mundo quieren el socialismo, pero no desean pasar por la tragedia de una guerra civil para alcanzarlo» me dijo en una entrevista en 1972.

Straight edge means I'm drug free, alcohol free, and better than you.

Nothing drives people to loony extremes more than religion and national pride.