Quotes About Ideology

Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." (Almansor)

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end

similarities between Francoism and Stalinism.)

José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the leader of Spain's fascist party, the Falange,

emergent populist conservatism.

the fear-driven social purification underpinning Francoism,

many saw their antifascism as a more important mark of personal identity than their Jewishness

The diet industry is built upon an ideology of racial, as well as gender, prejudice.20

Eddie and Jim both said it was a great thing the Russians were winning because the strongest team should win. Shannon thought the fascist philosophy was a very comfortable one. You simply cheered for the winner, who proved by virtue of winning that he should have won. No analysis, no doubts, no troubling moral questions.

love of power and his dealing so contemptuously with people once he had fallen out with them.38 In Ulyanov's view, Struve had betrayed orthodox Marxism with the 'bourgeois apologetics' of his conciliatory, legal Marxism. He was nothing but 'a politico, an artful dodger, a huckster, and an impudent boor

It was a modern massacre: urban in origin, driven by ideology, fueled by the press, and abetted by politicians from afar.

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

Space is not a scientific object removed from ideology or politics. It has always been political and strategic. There is an ideology of space. Because space, which seems homogeneous, which appears as a whole in its objectivity, in its pure form, such as we determine it, is a social product.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology.

In other words, each side could arm itself with whatever ideological slogans fulfilled its own domestic necessities, so long as it did not let them interfere with the need for cooperation against the Soviet danger. Ideology would be relegated to domestic management; it took a leave from foreign policy. The ideological armistice was, of course, valid only so long as objectives remained compatible.

continuous revolution had three sources: ideology, tradition, and Chinese nationalism.

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion.

The literary "fellow travelers" of the Revolution.

Finally, one of the most recent leaders of the left wing of the Social Revolutionaries, Mstislavsky, who subsequently went over to the Bolsheviks, says of the February uprising: "The revolution caught us, the party people of those days, like the foolish virgins of the Bible, napping." It does not matter how much they resembled virgins, but it is true they were all fast asleep.

The old Bolshevik party is dead but Bolshevism is raising its head everywhere.

Richard Grunberger points out in The Twelve-Year Reich, the Jew served a necessary psychological function. "Just as primitive man's concept of God supposed the existence of the Devil, so the German's progressive self-deification during the Third Reich depended upon the demonization of the Jew.

The nationalists, at heart, were socialists. The socialists, at heart, were nationalists.