Quotes About Ideology

If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin,3 were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I,'' and cuts you off forever from the "we.

Write him down, if he must write him down as something, as a disbeliever; he disbelieved in the Pope, in the Kremlin, in the Vietcong, in the American eagle, in astrology, Arthur Schlesinger, Eldridge Cleaver, Senator Eastland, and Eastman Kodak. Nor did he believe overmuch in his disbelief. He

All ideology can be embraced if the leader dresses well.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought.

The family is the American fascism.

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I'm glad that that's being changed.

One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.

Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

Part of Nietzsche's appeal was that it was easy to read a great deal into his work, and people including socialists, vegetarians, feminists, conservatives and, later, the Nazis did. Sadly, Nietzsche was not available to explain himself; he went mad in 1889 and died in 1900, the year of the Paris Exposition.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.