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Quotes About Ideology

Fox News is a virtual public square for conservatives.
~ Brian Stelter
The global jihad movement ideology is a destructive religious cult. It is so un-Islamic that it is virtually anti-Islamic.
~ Malcolm Nance
The terms 'progressive' and 'liberal' have virtually nothing to do with each other anymore. And if you are a classical liberal, you certainly aren't a leftist.
~ Dave Rubin
Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
~ Nancy Gibbs
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
~ Frank Zappa
My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.
~ Kurt Bills
The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.
~ Stephen Moore
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
~ Jimmy Carter
The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.
~ Whittaker Chambers
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
~ Louis Althusser
Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.
~ Louis Althusser
Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself compromised and caught up in the outside world.
~ Louis Althusser
T]he economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages, and against the class 'techniques' for increasing productivity... but also around the question of the technical-social division of labor that prevails om enterprises, and against bourgeois ideology and repression.
~ Louis Althusser
It is indeed a peculiarity of ideology that it imposes (without appearing to do so, since these are 'obviousnesses') obviousness and obviousness, which we cannot fail to recognize and before which we have the inevitable and natural reaction of crying out (aloud or in the 'still small voice of conscience'): 'That's obvious! That's right! That's true!
~ Louis Althusser
For it is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts (without in the least seeming to, since they are 'self­-evident') which we cannot not recognize and before which we have the inevitable and eminently natural reaction of exclaiming (aloud or in 'the silence of consciousness'): 'That's obvious! That's right! That's true!
~ Louis Althusser
No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.
~ Louis Aragon
Socialism has been discredited. Plutocracy is in the process of being discredited. Democratic capitalism has yet to be tried.
~ Louis O. Kelso
I have no ideology beyond finding and defending that spot between freedom and safety.
~ Louise Penny
la Fede è violenza, qualsiasi tipo di Fede, religiosa, politica e sportiva. Dietro ogni guerra c'è sempre un uomo di Fede che ha sparato il primo colpo.
~ Luciano De Crescenzo
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.
~ Lucy Powell
As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.
~ Lucy Powell
Socialism is the expression of the principle of violence crying from the workers' soul, just as Imperialism is the principle of violence speaking from the soul of the official and the soldier.
~ Ludwig von Mises
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
~ Ludwig von Mises