Quotes About Ideology

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

My father fled from the North, hating communism.

I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.

In North Korea, we learnt all Americans are the enemy; they are not human.

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

People on the Left really want a single-payer system. They really want - so even the Left doesn't want Obamacare. They want single payer, and we want a market-driven, patient-central system.

We must stand firm against the Left's nationalisation obsession.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Pero los amantes siempre encuentran un instante para escapar de las tenazas de la ideología. Ese instante es diminuto e inmenso, dura lo que dura un parpadeo y es largo como un siglo... Para los amantes del cuerpo piensa y el alma se toca, es palpable.

El siglo XX ha perfeccionado los odios religiosos al convertirlos en pasiones ideológicas.

There was something pretentious about politics when it was taken to extremes.

Whereas land reform was the first act of the Bolsheviks, it was the last act of the Whites: that, in a peasant country, says it all.

We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than the actual fanatics.

He disliked nearly all women and especially the young and pretty ones who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party the swallowers of slogans the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

The amount of testimony from those who have experienced the supernatural, whose lives have been changed for the better, and/or who have contributed good to society over the last two thousand years within a Christian context—such accumulating testimony dramatically outweighs what has been experienced and accomplished by any other ideology and dramatically outweighs the evils done in the name of Christ as well.

I'm not a Democrat because I haven't thought about the issues. I'm a Democrat because I have.

I have always found it peculiar, to say the least, when conservatives, especially conservative men, make these particular issues their ideological focus; there is something suspect to me about individuals who devote enormous amounts of time and attention to subjects they profess to find repugnant

They haven't the brains to be socialists.