Quotes About Ideology

Why does he choose to invent a literary form rather than use a culturally familiar one? This will be discussed at the outset under "ideology of genre" (below, 3, B).

His is a story by, about, and for those committed to God's work of justice, compassion, and liberation in the world. To modern theologians, like the Pharisees, Mark offers no "signs from heaven" (Mark 8: 11f.). To scholars who, like the chief priests, refuse to ideologically commit themselves, he offers no answer (Mk 11: 30–33). But to those willing to raise the wrath of the empire, Mark offers a way of discipleship (8: 34ff.).

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

Conservatism is the negation of Ideology.

The apotheosis of error, doctrine of the crowd.

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

we are] going to continue to fight communism. Now I am going to tell you how we are not going to fight communism. We are not going to transform our fine FBI into a Gestapo secret police. That is what some people would like to do. We are not going to try to control what our people read and say and think. We are not going to turn the United States into a right-wing totalitarian country in order to deal with a left-wing totalitarian threat.

A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind—the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy," Robinson said. He added that he now knew "how it felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany."40

While actually intersex individuals are real and incredibly rare, and actually transgendered people are also real and very rare, much of modern "gender ideology" is dangerous and contagious, and many of the interventions (hormonal, surgical) are not reversible.

Public health is not an ideology, religion, or political perspective—indeed, history demonstrates that whenever such forces interfere with or influence public health activities a general worsening of the populace's well-being usually followed.

Whenever purity is paramount, terror is close at hand.

Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

There is no one so cruel as a utopian who sees traditionalists standing in the way of the March of History.

Fanatics can never draw out the good in people. They will go to war I predict. They will raise armies, invade, and pillage because it is only aggression that will keep their cause alive. Fighting an enemy is always easier than governing human complexity.