Quotes About Ideology

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. —Vladimir Lenin

War is ninety percent myth anyway, isn't it? In order to prosecute our own wars we raise them to the level of human sacrifice, don't we, and we constantly invoke our God. It's got to be about something bigger than dying, or we'd all turn deserter.

From Marx until today, victim groups have played an indispensable role in Leftist success. Without victim groups, the Left cannot succeed.

The oft-cited charge that belief in God and religion has led to more wars and evil than anything else is as untrue as it is widely believed. Secular movements in the twentieth century alone killed and enslaved more people than any other movement in any century in history.

There were slave traders, Nazis, and Communists who were compassionate in their personal lives, but all of them told, and most of them believed, some great lie that enabled them to participate in a great evil. Black slavery was made possible in large measure by the lie that blacks were innately inferior to whites.

Who, pray tell, is for leaving the naked unclothed and the hungry without food? Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism advocated caring for the helpless millennia before Marx was born. So, when the Jewish, Christian, or secular Left tell us repeatedly that they are for clothing the naked, they really mean two other things: (1) Their opponents are not for feeding the hungry and clothing the naked and (2) Only those who affirm Left-wing policies are.

When it comes to fighting evil, the left is almost pacifist.

According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.

For the Left, politics is the way to transform the world; for conservatives, politics is primarily the way to stop the Left from doing so. The former is much more fulfilling than the latter.

There is no moral equivalency between people who associate themselves with these KKK and Nazism and those who are opposed to individuals who associate themselves with the KKK and Nazism.

One of the very first serious books I read when I was growing up was 'Atlas Shrugged.'

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

I believe that dogma is often evil.

If the Republican party becomes the party of David Duke, Donald Trump, I'm out.

If you elect a religious party into power, you no longer have a democracy.

You can come to a political position from an emotional place.

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

dejaba la educación de los niños obreros en manos de religiosos que les inculcaban aquellas ideas que debían llevarlos a la admisión de las clases sociales como designio divino, para que renunciaran a su libertad y se humillaran y sometieran pacíficamente a los privilegiados, todo bajo la promesa de un mundo mejor tras la muerte.

Leader follows his ideology, Leader does not follow his relatives and friends

De hecho, no sé si realmente creía en sus teorías. Hoy me inclino a suponer que sí. Uno tiene que creer en algo para alcanzar tal grado de vileza

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone.

Er erklärte mir, der Faschismus habe doch auch viele Menschen aus dem Proletariat getäuscht und sie müßten aufgeklärt, wie er sagte: 'umerzogen' werden, denn es handle sich um 'entwicklungsfähige Proletarier', die auf den richtigen Weg gebracht werden müßten.

If you have a faith, if you've some deep conviction, whether you're a Nazi or a Communist or what the hell else you are then you can sacrifice yourself and others to your faith. But from the moment you've no faith from that moment you live in a deep inner confusion from then on you're exposed to what Strindberg calls 'the powers'.