Quotes About Ideology

Separated from National Socialism by time and luck, we find it easy to dismiss Nazi ideas without contemplating how they functioned. Our forgetfulness convinces us that we are different from Nazis by shrouding the ways that we are the same. —

Our intuitions fail us. We rightly associate the Holocaust with Nazi ideology, but forget that many of the killers were not Nazis or even Germans. We think first of German Jews, although almost all of the Jews killed in the Holocaust lived beyond Germany. We

A party emboldened by a favorable election result or motivated by ideology, or both, might change the system from within.

Influential Americans such as Charles Lindbergh opposed war with the Nazis under the slogan "America First." It

European public opinion was so polarized by 1936 that it was indeed difficult to criticize the Soviet regime without seeming to endorse fascism and Hitler. This, of course, was the shared binary logic of National Socialism and the Popular Front: Hitler called his enemies "Marxists," and Stalin called his "fascists."34 They agreed that there was no middle ground.

For violence to transform not just the atmosphere but also the system, the emotions of rallies and the ideology of exclusion have to be incorporated into the training of armed guards. These first challenge the police and military, then penetrate the police and military, and finally transform the police and military.

But the concentration camps are not where most of the victims of National Socialism and Stalinism died. These misunderstandings regarding the sites and methods of mass killing prevent us from perceiving the horror of the twentieth century. Germany was the site of concentration camps liberated by the Americans and the British in 1945; Russian Siberia was of course the site of much of the Gulag, made

The American Left specializes in being right and losing and the American Right specializes in being wrong and winning.

The fourteen million were murdered over the course of only twelve years, between 1933 and 1945, while both Hitler and Stalin were in power.

The content of various political ideas was beside the point, since all were merely traps for fools. There were no Jewish liberals and no Jewish nationalists, no Jewish messiahs and no Jewish Bolsheviks: "Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew." Hitler saw Jesus as an enemy of Jews whose teachings had been perverted by Paul to become one more false Jewish universalism, that of mercy to the weak.

certain kinds of polities, communist party-states such as the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, are capable, in times of peace, of killing large numbers of their own citizens as a matter of deliberate policy.

On the political Right, the erosion of state power by international capitalism seems natural; on the political Left, rudderless revolutions portray themselves as virtuous. In the twenty-first century, anarchical protest movements join in a friendly tussle with global oligarchy, in which neither side can be hurt since both see the real enemy as the state.

An eternity politician defines foes rather than formulating policies.

This unprecedented mass murder would have been impossible without a special kind of politics. —

The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

Socialism always begins with a universal vision for the brotherhood of man and ends with people having to eat their own pets.

Identity - conceived as a singular or as an intersection of multiple aspects - is not a basis from which I can fight against ideology but the result of ideology's operations.

For Hegel, philosophy intervenes politically by making clear the relations that already exist.

Many treatises have been written on the gulf in thinking between the Greens and Purples that led to the split (if they can ever have been said to be united), but by far the most famous is The Green and the Purple: Strange Bedfellows, an anonymously-penned sequence in the pro-New Tory political magazine The Professional:

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.

Being a people's party cannot mean being a kind of all-purpose political shop that offers something for everyone.

Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.

I don't share the same values as One Nation.