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Quotes About Ideology

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
~ Mark Twain
Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.
~ Bill Whittle
If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.
~ Joseph Sobran
If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.
~ Robert Novak
A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.
~ Fred Thompson
People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
~ Charles Bukowski
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
~ Winston Churchill
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
~ Mark Twain
Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.
~ Llewellyn Rockwell
The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.
~ Newt Gingrich
When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.
~ Herman Cain
The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.
~ P. D. James
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
~ Francis Parker Yockey
All I know is I'm not a Marxist.
~ Karl Marx
The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
~ Will Rogers
When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.
~ Eric Voegelin
One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.
~ Zephyr Teachout
Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.
~ Maurice Cowling
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Revolutions are not made for export.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.
~ Jerzy Peterkiewicz
What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?
~ Richard M. Nixon