Quotes About Ideology

Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism

As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism.

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with --- and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power....

Left wing, right wing, chicken wing.

I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I have been in the red all my life.

The power of collective memory does not lie in its accurate, systematic, or sophisticated mapping of the past, but in establishing basic images that articulate and reinforce a particular ideological stance.

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

The issues that give rise to strident professions of faith on both sides of the ideological divide seem to have little bearing on the problems most people face in everyday life. Politics has become a matter of ideological gestures while the real problems remain unsolved.

The ideology of personal growth, superficially optimistic, radiates a profound despair and resignation. It is the faith of those without faith.

A ideologia do crescimento pessoal, superficialmente otimista, irradia um profundo desespero e resignação. É a fé dos que não têm fé.

To blame the irrational features of modern politics on narcissism, the ideology of intimacy, or the "culture of personality" not only exaggerates the role of ideology in historical development but underestimates the irrationality of politics in earlier epochs.

Aku tidak begitu memikirkan benda-benda duniawi seperti uang. Hanya orang yang tak pernah menghirup apinya nasionalisme dapat larut dalam hal-hal sepele seperti itu. Kemerdekaan adalah makanan yang membuat aku hidup. Ideologi, idealisme. Makanan dari jiwa. Semua inilah makananku. Aku sendiri hidup dalam kekurangan, tapi apa salahnya? Bekerja sama dengan partaiku dan rakyatku menuju kemerdekaan, untuk semua itulah aku hidup.

Amerika hanya suka padamu bila engkau berada pada pihak yang dipilihnya. Kalau engkau tidak sepenuhnya sejalan dengan dia, engkau secara otomatis dimasukan dalam blok Uni Sovyet.

Seorang komunis menginginkan dunia yang terdiri dari satu bangsa. Mereka menghapuskan nasionalisme untuk kepentingan internasionalisme.

Komunisme dapat diberantas dengan pikiran sehat, bukan dengan sikap histeris.

En sí misma, toda idea es neutra o debería serlo; pero el hombre la anima, proyecta en ella sus llamas y sus demencias; impura, transformada en creencia, se inserta en el tiempo, adopta figura de suceso: el paso de la lógica a la epilepsia se ha consumado... Así nacen las ideologías, las doctrinas y las farsas sangrientas.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals -- With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Edward Campbell Lowe was a radical in his blood and in his bones... his maternal grandfather had famously made a bonfire with a valuable portrait of the Marquess of Bute because, he had declared, it was more than a man could stomach to encounter a Tory every morning before breakfast.

It is surely gratuitous to point out that the author suffered from an edifice complex (writing of Ayn Rand)

I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.