Quotes About Ideology

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible

For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence

how GDP in fact imposed an ideology of applied patriarchy onto the measurement of economic progress, alongside many other limitations.

The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.

ideology has the function of presenting exploitation in a favorable light to the exploited, as advantageous to the disadvantaged.

Where men burn books, they will also in the end burn men.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

Republicanism was easier to evolve than to define.

facts never disconfirm a good ideology

The great hope of the Tet Offensive was that its very size and daring would trigger a surge of nationalism that would transcend barriers of ideology, class, and faith.

Liberal racist pity, as well as a conservatives' racist callousness, were both engines of Lockdown America. Foucault's works remain important, enabling us to see carceral machinery working across multiple spheres of social life and political ideology.

The forces at work in healthy party politics are centripetal; they encourage factions and interests to come together to work out common goals and strategies. They oblige everyone to think, or at least speak, about the common good. In movement politics, the forces are all centrifugal, encouraging splits into smaller and smaller factions obsessed with single issues and practicing rituals of ideological one-upmanship.

The Indian farmer suicide story is a myth built on tragic individual anecdotes and extrapolated to a whole country by those like Vandana Shiva with an ideological axe to grind and little concern about the true facts.

To imagine that Hitler was merely following in, say, Bismarck's footsteps was profoundly to misunderstand the man and his view of the world. Bismarck thought in terms of great-power politics, Hitler of racial triumph.

The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

We now have the liberal playbook and we know what they are doing, and we are using it against them. Unlike the Democrats though, we aren't out to destroy our society, we are out to save it.

Political utopianism1 is tyranny disguised as a desirable, workable, and even paradisiacal governing ideology.

prevents us from seeing the world as it actually is. Instead, we see only a distorted version of it. It is as if we see the world through a glass—a glass that magnifies the facts that liberals want us to see and shrinks the facts that conservatives want us to see. The

not meant to serve the political expedients of a class of governing masterminds and their fanatical followers.