Quotes About Ideology

Over time political pragmatism could trump ideology helped by a growing civil society that will begin to produce a new cadre of pragmatic, entrepreneurial and social leaders—something that authoritarian regimes consistently stifled.

The mask of secularism may differ in thickness, may be less visible, but religion is always there hidden under hallowed big beautiful words

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

We do not see nature or intelligence or human motivation or ideology as "it" is but only as our languages are. And our languages are our media. Our media are our metaphors. Our metaphors create the content of our culture.

We may have reached the point where cosmetics has replaced ideology as the field of expertise over which a politician must have competent control.

The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital.

Public consciousness has not yet assimilated the point that technology is ideology.

Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.

embedded in every tool is an ideological bias, a predisposition to construct the world as one thing rather than another, to value one thing over another, to amplify one sense or skill or attitude more loudly than another.

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

Pure Land faith leads to pure hell. Zen is the ideology of demons. Ritsu is an alien conspiracy. Shingon is sedition.

Sitting in the garden of Hitler's former classmates in Leonding, she visualized the beloved features of her Fuhrer suddenly merging into the impersonal Essence of the many-featured One, who spoke Krishna's words to Arjuna. She was certain that she had sought him for centuries, in life after life, until she realized that the founder of the Third Reich was indeed he— the one who comes back, whenever he should ''to establish the reign of Righteousness.

If the ideology is built on the identity of the organization and the core tenets of the culture, it is an encapsulation of what makes a company unique.

Even though the ideology is normally structured to give guidance, we should at the same time recognize that brands are fluid entities that are shaped by the interaction between organizational members and external stakeholders.

I feel like a class traitor when I say it but the first lesson from the 'heroic' age of the Left in the Thirties is that it never works like that in a conflict in which your own society is involved. You can be a critical friend of one side or another, a very critical friend as often as not, but you have to choose which side you are on, and those who don't usually end up as the biggest villains of all.

There also needs to be a clean break with totalitarianism: both totalitarian regimes abroad and the totalitarian left – if it is still a left – at home. It is incredible that this point needs to be reiterated after the twentieth century; astonishing that we need to go through all that again.

The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.

Progress ages badly. Each generation brings a new model of progressivism which discards with contempt the previous model. Nothing is more grotesque than yesterday's progressive.

The Gospels and the Communist Manifesto are on the wane; the world's future lies in the power of Coca-Cola and pornography.

To deny that a "human nature" exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history.

The French Revolution has been the highest wave of the Gnostic tide.

Legal freedom of expression has grown alongside the sociological enslavement of thought.

A reactionary is anyone who is not prepared to buy his victory at any price.

The Left does not always kill, but it always lies.