Quotes About Ideology

we live in a system, an ideology, and probably a wounded psychology that allow full feeling only sporadically. The system numbs us; it also depends on our numbness.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

The Christian Right is neither.

He says that we missed our chance to explain communism with all its horrors and labor camps and now a whole generation just takes it as a "lifestyle".

Yet the real issue is not the danger of religion per se, but of dogmatic thinking.

Sayyid Ali Amin said that the Lebanese Shi'ite Hizballah movement was attempting to stop discussion of the thesis of clerical rule in Iran, because challenging this ideology would undermine Hizballah's own power in Lebanon. "This is the biggest proof that [clerical rule] is not part of religious beliefs, but it is a power and political ideology," he said.

Ideology, wherever it exists, is almost invariably pressed into the service of local geopolitics. In short, we witness the role of anti-Byzantine impulses facilitating the Islamic conquest in many of the Semitic regions.

Religion was the ideology of the period, working in support of conflicting geopolitical interests.

we're also extremely sensitive to the difference between literacy and ideology. It is our belief that the first helps to thwart intolerance, challenge dogma, and reinforce our common humanity. The second does the opposite.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation-ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids.

We, the willing, should practice the art of lifting the ideological veil and seeing co-humanity everywhere.

Shifting the frame only slightly, the choice of a theory from among the range of always ideologically founded theories is itself necessarily ideologically motivated. Positioning is unavoidable; positioning is the result of choice from among a range of possibilities; that choice is socially meaningful - it is ideological.

We have also realized that our biggest failure over the last fifty years has been of administrative and institutional incompetence and our inability to implement rather than of ideology.

There's no longer a need for the Communist Party USA because the Democratic Party has adopted all our platforms.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief

To belong to a school is necessarily to espouse its prejudices.

Everyone has a religion, whether they admit it or not. For some it's Catholicism; for others, Vegetarianism or Elvis or Linux/Macintosh/Windows.

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

La épica del nacionalismo revolucionario se diluye en un horizonte de crítica pública cuya tierra prometida es la democracia y cuya pieza de caza mayor es el dinosaurio priista.