Quotes About Ideology

We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.

What I mean is that conservatives are in a constant state of hair-on-fire, yelling anger.

Communists and capitalists alike, liberal and conservative capitalists alike, have needed to replace religion with some form of determinism, so that they can say to their victims, I am doing this because I can't do otherwise. It is not my fault. It is inevitable. The wonder is how often organized religion has gone along with this lie.

That was the horror of the Purge—that acting as a Communist, Stalin had acted rightly. In that fact lay the evidence that Communism is absolutely evil.

Heaven and utopia are buckets in a well: when one goes down the other goes up; when religion declines Communism grows.

Curiously, the failures of Communism are more often treated as a joke than as a tragedy.

National Review will support the rightwardmost viable candidate.

Yes, Murray Rothbard believed in freedom, and yes, David Koresh believed in God.

Some people turn to crime, others to ideology.

I don't mean a 1905 Republican---I don't know what his Tennessee politics were, or if he had any---I mean a 1961 Republican. He was more: he was a Conservative. Like this: a Republican is a mad who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefooted Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write.

Ain't all that simple," he said. "It's everything I been brought up to be. Can't all be bullshit, can it?" Rydell, glancing over at him, took pity. "Naw," he said, "I guess it wouldn't have to be, necessarily, all of it, but it's just—" "What they bring you all up to be, Berry?" Rydell had to think about it. "Republican," he said, finally.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

It was a short step from the liberal Christ-the-highest-in-humanity to the Nazi Superman.

Many of the books tossed into the flames in Berlin that night by the joyous students under the approving eye of Dr. Goebbels had been written by authors of world reputation.

This of course was heresy to Hitler, who accused Otto Strasser of professing the cardinal sins of "democracy and liberalism.

The Führer is always right. Obey the Führer. The mother is the highest expression of womanhood. The soldier is the highest expression of manhood. God is not punishing us by this war, he is giving us the opportunity to prove whether we are worthy of our freedom.

He was now convinced that Hitler had brought the movement to a dead end. The more radical followers were going over to the Communists.

This man was Anton Drexler, a locksmith by trade, who may be said to have been the actual founder of National Socialism.