Quotes About Ideology

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Sound doctrine is sound politics.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

All isms end in fascism.

Religion is often politics made sacred.

Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.