Quotes About Ideology

L'idéologie guette l'esprit qui, se réjouissant de lui-même comme le Zarathoustra de Nietzsche, devient irrésistiblement presque un absolu de lui-même. La théorie empêche cela. Elle corrige la naïverté de sa confiance en soi sans qu'il doive pourtant sacrifier la spontanéité à laquelle la théorie pour sa part veut accéder.

Se se quisesse responder à questão sem asserções ideológicas, torna-se-ia imperiosa a suspeita de que o tempo livre tende em direção contrária à de seu próprio conceito, tornando-se paródia, deste. Nele se prolonga a não-liberdade tão desconhecida da maioria das pessoas não-livres como a sua não-liberdade em si mesma.

The only responsible course is to deny oneself the ideological misuse of one's own existence, and for the rest to conduct oneself in private as modestly, unobtrusively and unpretentiously as is required, no longer by good upbringing, but by the shame of still having air to breathe, in hell.

He spent five years between 2007 and 2012 in prison, in which he was "radicalized," that is to say, he was given (and adopted) an ideological justification for his psychopathic behavior.

ideology that 'gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.

Fascism is not fashion.

ideological aim: to subvert the very concept and deny the possibility of virtue, and therefore of the necessity for restraint.

If Custine were among us now, he would recognise the evil of political correctness at once, because of the violence that it does to people's souls by forcing them to say or imply what they do not believe but must not question.

It has often been said that anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools; it would be more accurate to say that socialism is the anti-Semitism of intellectuals...

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

The youthful disaffiliation of our time strikes beyond ideology to the level of consciousness, seeking to transform our deepest sense of the self, the other, and the environment.

Until the end of the 1960's I do not recall ever seriously exchanging ideas with an articulate conservative. They were there, but not on my scope. I systematically avoided any contact with those who would have challenged my ideology.

A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.

the theme that runs powerfully through all of Orwell's writings, from his early work on Burmese Days through the late 1930s and then through the great essays, and into Animal Farm and 1984, is the abuse of power in the modern world by both the left and the right.

One gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England.

I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Netanyahu is beholden to the extreme Right.

I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State.

I feel like the Left wants to destroy Fox News.

I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

People call me left of centre, they don't even know why left is called left and why right is called right. They have no clue. These are just you know jargons - created and marketed.