Quotes About Ideology

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

these ideological cliques form in a government--or any other organization. Subordinates are always chosen for their agreement with the views of their superiors, and the extremists always get to the top and shove the moderates under or out.

You show me ten men who cherish some religious doctrine or political ideology, and I'll show you nine men whose minds are utterly impervious to any factual evidence which contradicts their beliefs, and who regard the producer of such evidence as a criminal who ought to be suppressed.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Whether theologians acknowledge it or not, all theologies begin with experience ... We are all particular human beings, finite creatures, and we create our understanding of God out of our experience. Hopefully, our own experience points to the universal, but it is never identical with it. For when we mistake our own talk about God with ultimate reality, we turn it into ideology.

third choice was to strike off toward some new projection—a new job, a better (different) relationship, a seductive ideology, or sometimes to drift into some unconscious "self-treatment plan" such as an addiction or an affair.

I'm a believer in universal brotherhood, said Temple, glancing about him out of his dark oval eyes. Marx is only a bloody cod.

caused him to drop his membership in the ACLU and join the National Rifle Association.

sees the revolutionary dimension of the war not simply as a triumph of freedom over slavery, or industrialism over agriculture, or the bourgeoisie over the plantation gentry—but as a combination of all these things. Plantation agriculture in the South was not a form of feudalism, Moore insists; rather, it was a special form of capitalism that spawned a value system and an ideology that glorified hereditary privilege, racial caste, and slavery while it rejected bourgeois

But secular-ism, more than any other single word, aptly describes the mental framework and value structure of the people of our time.

Best way to stir the crazy pot? Wrap your dogma in an American flag and wait to see who bites

Unfortunately, the liberal philosophy has created millions of people that way who believe everything they are or ever hope to be depends upon the federal government rather than the opportunities that this great country grants them.

I can be unhappy with the Congress, but I cannot give up on its ideology.

It is unhealthy to have one of the two main parties paralyzed by internal conflict. So, it's in all of our interests for the Democratic Party to rid itself of the cancer of its democratic socialist faction.

Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.

I was proud of my Soviet country, of wearing Young Pioneer uniform, bombarded by my mother's Communist propaganda.

It is not white nationalism to believe that growing ideological uniformity in the commanding heights of culture makes American politics more polarized.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

This much I would say: Socialism has failed all over the world. In the eighties, I would hear every day that there is no inflation in the Soviet Union, there is no poverty in the Soviet Union, there is no unemployment in the Soviet Union. And now we find that, due to Socialism, there is no Soviet Union!

Joining the Grand Old Party seemed like a natural choice for someone like me who fled the Soviet Union as a boy and came to Los Angeles with his mother and grandmother in 1976.

Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

The Soviet Union was a one-party state. In such states, enemies of the party become enemies of the state, and the state can punish with full weight of prosecution.