Quotes About Ideology

No longer can a risk to human life be considered subordinate to blind and increasingly discredited ideology.

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

The Jacksonians were libertarians, plain and simple. Their program and ideology were libertarian; they strongly favored free enterprise and free markets, but they just as strongly opposed special subsidies and monopoly privileges conveyed by government to business or to any other group.

I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.

Liberals are good at catchphrases, but there's no substance behind them.

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

Barack Obama basically ran as a liberal suburban Republican.

Those who make their patriotism a vehicle for intolerance are very dangerous.

The more extreme conservatives will embrace religion and nationalism to a higher degree.

argue that the physical world matters no less today, but we are in denial about its power and relevance. We seek to control it, to hold it steady, and to marginalize it ideologically by worshipping Silicon Valley and elevating the value and power of information. We

certidumbres ideológicas siempre han sabido dominar las contingencias individuales.

Colón va a pasar del asimilacionismo, que implicaba una igualdad de principio, a la ideología esclavista

Those who are marching into the battlefield and are ready to be killed today in the name of democracy, in the name of freedom, in the name of communism, are no different from those who threw themselves to the lions in the arenas. The Romans watched that fun with great joy. How are we different from them? Not a bit. We love it. To kill and to be killed is the foundation of our culture.

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

As the interpretation of reality by the power structure, ideology is always subordinated ultimately to the interests of the structure. Therefore, it has a natural tendency to disengage itself from reality, to create a world of appearances, to become ritual... Increasingly, the virtuosity of the ritual becomes more important than the reality hidden behind it.

Ideology offers human beings the illusion of dignity and morals while making it easier to part with them.

I was struck by a shallow figure of speech. . . . that Christianity is the handmaiden of capitalism.

The ideology of development has implied the globalization of the priorities, patterns, and prejudices of the West. Instead of self-generated, development is imposed. Instead of coming from within, it is externally guided. Instead of contributing to the maintenance of diversity, development has created homogeneity...

Anticarb sentiment in the endurance sports community is an ideological spillover from the weight-loss diet culture.

education will be replaced with indoctrination.

National Socialism adapts Fascism, Bolshevism, Americanism, works it all into Teutonic Romanticism.

The revolutionary is a dedicated man. He has no personal interests, no private affairs, no emotions, no attachments, no property and no name. Everything in him is subordinated towards a single thought, a single passion: the Revolution.' Sergei Nechayev, The Revolutionary Catechism, 1869

There are plenty of Marxist-Leninist textbooks about taking power; but there are none about giving it up.