Quotes About Ideology

Every anti-communist is a dog.

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

And the America Firsters would raise an almighty hue and cry.

Vegetarianism is always the product of scarcity, of religion, or of ideology, including nutritional fads and fashions.

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

Never before had I seen such a striking uniform. At the proud peak of the cap glittered a death's-head and crossbones, while lightninglike signs embellished the collar. A red badge bearing the bold sign of the swastika cut across his sleeve.

Too far, Mrs. Jones! You go too far! You go too far confusing the cause of labor with that of socialism

It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks.

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.

I am not retiring until every American agrees with me, and there's some work still to be done on this.

The right seeks political victory at the ballot box - and that's just the way it's been. It's a bit cliched to say but the right, conservatives, work. They have jobs.

What they want can never work. Their dreams can never even get close to reality. Their hopes can never, ever be realized. It isn't humanly possible for liberalism to succeed.

It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

When the Republicans controlled the House from 1994 -2006, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman Charlie Rangel, John Conyers and Rahm Emanuel weren't saying we need to move right to win. They stuck to their philosophy. And they fought against Reagan and they fought against the Bushes. And eventually they did win.

The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

I got involved in cultural studies because I didn't think life was purely economically determined. I took all this up as an argument with economic determinism. I lived my life as an argument with Marxism, and with neoliberalism. Their point is that, in the last instance, economy will determine it. But when is the last instance?

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

When I was studying in JNU, I realised how students and professors address each other as comrades.

A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

Progressivism is the belief that we have too much freedom with which to make too many stupid choices.

I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style.

Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.