Quotes About Ideology

The CCP seemed to be following a dictum attributed to Stalin: 'Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

The driving force of any ideology stands revealed: it can't be coherent without being intolerant.

the failed states in Latin America needed double-entry bookkeeping more than they needed any ideology,

ideology itself the perpetual enemy of realism.

Trotsky's idea of permanent revolution will always be attractive to the kind of romantic who believes that he is being oppressed by global capitalism when he maxes out his credit card.

Think hard about it I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.

So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And Communism had brought him back full circle to poverty.

The current philosophy was that Buddha was a communist.

Yes, Siri. A dedicated socialist plunges headfirst into the troubled waters without testing the depth." "Isn't he likely to bump his head on the bottom?" Siri asked.

So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And communism had brought him back full circle to poverty. There was a PhD dissertation waiting to be written about such a cycle.

He who is a sceptic in regard to faith, in regard to science, conservatism, progress, and so on, has indeed difficulty in finding anything to do. In

La rationalité technologique de l'univers totalitaire est la forme la plus récente qu'a pu prendre l'idée de Raison.

Der Guerillero besetzt das Land, der Terrorist besetzt das Denken.

I left that Democrat plantation a long time ago and I ain't going back.

I have no country. I don't want one. The root of all evil, the cause of every war—god and country.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

No, Mr. Khrushchev, you may not have a wall. It will not prove that communism works. It will not work out well at all. Now, look, I agree capitalism isn't the be-all and end-all! Let me show you my last credit card bill. But you really need to put your thinking cap back on.

No, Mr. Khrushchev, you may not have a wall. It will not prove that communism works. It will not work out well at all.

Liberalism is a scourge. It destroys the human spirit. It destroys prosperity. It assigns sameness to everybody. And wherever I find it, I oppose it.

The Eighties proved we don't need liberals.

Who destroys books? Cities, churches, dictators and fanatics. Their fingers itch to build a pyre and strike the match. On 10 May 1933, students gathered in Berlin to dance around a bonfire of 25,000 volumes of 'un-German' books. They burned, amongst many others, Bertolt Brecht, Otto Dix, Heinrich Heine, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and H.G. Wells. They destroyed them because the contents were too dangerous.

MacKenzie defines imperialism as being 'more than a set of economic, political and military phenomena. It is also a complex ideology which had widespread cultural, intellectual and technical expressions.'8

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

For a key perception of the book is that most human beings are not ideologues; intellectual coherence is not a notable feature of their politics. People's political views may be rigid but they are not necessarily rigorous. They tend to derive from, or to be reflections of, some mixture of sentiment, custom, and moral aspiration.