Quotes About Ideology

If I had to be anything, he told her, I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

If women are Republicans, they've been brainwashed—the men have brainwashed them," Nana said.

What you think about somebody wants peace, Claude?" "That sounds like a communiss to me." Mrs.

What you think about somebody wants peace, Claude?" "That sounds like a communiss to me." Mrs. Reilly's worst fears were realized.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

The United States and the Soviet Union are different. . . . America's new president, Richard Nixon, is a longtime rightist, a leader of the anti-communists there. I like to deal with rightists. They say what they really think—not like the leftists, who say one thing and mean another.72

I can't take communism nor can you, but to cross this bridge I would hold hands with the Devil.

This is where the capitalists got it right: they were better than the communists at learning from history, because they never bought into any single, sacrosanct, and therefore unchallengeable theory of history.

Indeed, Brand's thinking has evolved in many ways—from anti- to pronuclear, from environmentalism to conservationism, and from libertarianism to something closer to traditional liberalism.

At Stanford he read both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and was seduced by Ayn Rand's romantic view of free-market capitalism as well as her view of businessmen as heroic.

The communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing.""You mean you went to an expensive school?

The Left neither cares about prosperity nor jobs. It cares about equality

This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

The political spectrum is not linear but circular. In my experience the extreme left always ends up rubbing shoulders with the extreme right. They are philosophically blood brothers.

In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing an effective job communicating that.

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.