Quotes About Ideology

Populism is the radical opposite of conservatism,

In every period, and in every country, there have always been two parties: the reactionary and the progressive.

Very few philosophers have been anarchists

It is impossible to be an anti-Communist and it is not possible to be a Communist.

Diez mil nacionalistas contrarios a los Estados Unidos y la democracia, y partidarios de los nazis, marcharon por la avenida Santa Fe, gritando desafiantemente: '¡Muerte a los cerdos ingleses!','Muerte a los judíos!' y '¡Neutralidad y Castillo!'".

The modern conservative movement was inspired by Barry Goldwater's canonical text from 1960, The Conscience of a Conservative.

He has nothing useful to say about fascism who is unwilling to mention capitalism.

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?

The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.

To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

The absence of a vision of a socialist alternative ensures that there is no alternative to capitalism. If you don't know where you want to go, no road will take you there

Many Christians have put the political cart before the theological horse.

more men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a century of the Inquisition.

Smith was as conservative as it got in American politics, but he figured that part of conservatism meant conserving things.

Junk Economics is the cover story for all this. Claiming to be scientific, it is sponsored by financial interests to redistribute income and wealth upward, reversing the policies urged by the 19th-century classical economists and Progressive Era reformers. Instead of progressive taxation, this ideology advocates shifting taxes off the One Percent onto the 99 Percent.

Popular morality blames victims for going into debt – not only individuals, but also national governments. The trick in this ideological war is to convince debtors to imagine that general prosperity depends on paying bankers and making bondholders rich – a veritable Stockholm Syndrome in which debtors identify with their financial captors.

Incurable disease is a nonpartisan problem that will require a bipartisan solution. The desire to alleviate suffering and save lives speaks not to our allegiance to any party or ideology but to our humanity.

We seemed to be heading toward a revolution that would not only see a battle between the haves and have-nots, but between the fundamentalists and the progressives—actually that war had already begun, and it did so long before September 11.

Conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit.

The personal is the political" is a totalitarian progressive decree that I reject entirely.

Twenty-five years later, Pat Buchanan has been proven correct. There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. On one side of the battlefield is the religion known as progressivism. On the other stands the New Right.

language of these intellectually impoverished young people is larded with ready-made phrases. They quote Stalin instead of thinking for themselves; they derive their opinion from Pravda editorials. They are arrogant and complacent, and everything that pertains to them is the greatest thing there is: