Quotes About Ideology

Whenever the humble sense of human thought's essential reform-ability is not understood, a metamorphosis is ushered in: philosophy becomes ideology. And this metamorphosis is realized to the extent to which it can be considered "normal" to impose a certain conception of life. It is in this way that the violence of power makes its appearance.

If the communist party under the leadership of Joma Sison insists on being too radical, too incorrigible, they will fail. They will, as the saying goes, "die on the vine." They will wither and be forgotten. The people themselves will reject them. They should instead abide by the people's interest...

Most people's religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.

It's not surprising, then, that after conservatism made a comeback following the war and FDR's death, one of its first targets would be the film industry.

generally treating free-market capitalism as a kind of state religion.

We have two parties here, and only two. One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party. ... I'm very proud to be a member of the stupid party. ... Occasionally, the two parties get together to do something that's both evil and stupid. That's called bipartisanship.

While these terms — Bolshevik, Communist, Marxist, socialist, and Soviet — are sometimes used interchangeably, many people have died to make distinctions among them.

He even wrote a ballet about soccer, in which crooked capitalist soccer players face off against clean-living Soviets who perform startling slowmotion gymnastics.

The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other

First of all, I don't think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it's a system.

Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: "Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.

He used simple words and did not hesitate to tell what he later described as "colossal untruths." He sought to incite hatred toward those he considered traitors—the "November criminals" whose treachery had cost Germany the war—and he returned each day to what Nietzsche had called the ideology "of those who feel cheated": anti-Semitism.

Thus was conceived a phenomenon that would split America from right to left and raise ominous questions—of a type we still face—about whether a democratic citizenry can be talked into betraying its own values.

To a small "d" democrat, process matters more than ideology. The fairness of an election is more important than who wins. There is not, on most questions of policy, a single democratic answer. Concerns arise only when leaders try to augment their power through means that could cause permanent damage to democratic institutions.

Strach z komunismu zplodil fašismus.

To secure the future, they turn schools into seminaries for true believers, striving to produce "new men" and "new women" who will obey without question or pause. And, as one of my students observed, "a Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.

Henlein was motivated less by Nazi ideology than by the lure of power and fame. His skill as a politician stemmed from his gift for lying with apparent sincerity

The wise response to intolerance is not more intolerance or self-righteousness; it is a coming together across the ideological spectrum of people who want to make democracies more effective.

Every age has its own Fascism. —PRIMO LEVI

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

The alienated audiences was one that was aware of the performance as an arbitrary construction of the real, of the difference between players and characters, and was therefore aware that the people and incidents on stage were there to perform social an ideological actions that could only be understood in terms of their relationship to the dominant ideology. Alienation produced a thinking, interrogative socially aware audience.

Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism,...

Global laissez-faire is not a conspiracy of corporate America. It is a tragedy - one of several that have occurred in the twentieth century - in which an hubristic ideology runs aground on enduring human needs that it has failed to comprehend.

why is there no right-wing Daily Show? And we would glibly, pridefully answer that the conservative movement could not be funny because it was, by nature, authoritarian, prudish, untruthful, and dull.