Quotes About Ideology

The Marxist dialectic is essentially word-fetishism. Every article of the faith is embodied in a word fetish whose double or even multiple meaning makes it possible to unite incompatible ideas and demands. The interpretation of these words, as intentionally ambiguous as the words of the Delphic Pythia, eventually brings the different parties to blows, and everyone quotes in his favour passages from the writings of Marx and Engels to which authoritative importance is attached.

The Bolshevists persistently tell us that religion is opium for the people. Marxism is indeed opium for those who might take to thinking and must therefore be weaned from it.

I have pointed out that the worst thing that can happen to a socialist is to have his country ruled by socialists who are not his friends.

Originally, i.e., before Karl Marx, the term "right" meant the supporters of representative government and civil liberties, as opposed to the "left" who favored royal absolutism and the absence of civil rights.

This is the necessary unavoidable consequence of the fact that, according to Marxist doctrine, you do not consider the possibility of dissent among honest people; either you think as I do, or you are a traitor and must be liquidated.

Matem os infiéis! Queimem os hereges! O que é novo é apenas o fato de que hoje em dia ele é vendido ao público sob o rótulo de "ciência".

To a considerable extent, without knowing it, many people are philosophical Marxists, although they use different names for their philosophical ideas.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

The worst thing that can happen to a socialist is to have his country ruled by socialists who are not his friends.

What Communism was to the twentieth century, Islam will be for the next one hundred years.19

Destruam et aedificabo, as Proudhon was wont to cry.

He pushed his two feet together and shot his right arm in the air before clicking his two heels together and saying in a deep and clear voice as possible the words he said every time he left a soldiers presence. 'Heil Hitler,' he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, 'Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon'.

The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.

He has said you can be a capitalist, and be a good person, or be a communist, and be good. What you can't be is a terrorist and a good person.

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

You don't sell the product, you sell the philosophy. When you sell a product, you have customers, when you sell a philosophy, you have believers.

I don't want to overstate tantra because I'm sure there are scumbags everywhere, but it seems like it's an ideology that actually respects female desire.

Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.