Quotes About Ideology

The Marxist maxim is 'agitate, agitate, agitate', and that is precisely what today's reds are doing with race.

Highly organized complex societies are delicate machines. It does not take much to bring them to ruin. 'For want of a nail…the kingdom was lost', as the old rhyme has it. Civilizations based on ideology are even more fragile than most. As we know from twentieth-century history, once people stop believing in the system, the end is near; no amount of coercion can keep it going indefinitely.

social, artistic and scientific progress as well as technological advance are most evident where the ruling culture and ideology give men and women permission to play, whether with ideas, beliefs, principles or materials. And where playful science changes people's understanding of the way the physical world works, political change, even revolution, is rarely far behind.

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

Ideological conformity depends on conditions of prosperity; it has no staying-power of its own.

These days, we forget that fascism was a supposedly progressive ideology that sought to create the perfect society based on the science of the time.

On the contrary, religion, ethics, and society are subservient to 'the market'. In that sense, neo-liberalism is no longer an economic theory, but a much broader ideology.

La Unión Soviética había resultado ser una tierra de pobreza compartida. El comunismo no funcionaba en Rusia tan bien como se esperaba precisamente porque era Rusia. Hubiera funcionado a lo grande en Estados Unidos, pensó Harold. Aquél era el lugar para el comunismo.

Tatiana had always thought she would not make a very good Communist. She liked Mikhail Zoshchenko's stories too much.

The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.

revolutionaries themselves become reactionary by falling into sectarianism in the process of responding to the sectarianism of the Right.

Daí a crítica permanentemente presente em mim à malvadez neoliberal, ao cinismo de sua ideologia fatalista e a sua recusa inflexível ao sonho e à utopia.

Uma das grandes, se não a maior, tragédia do homem moderno está em que é hoje dominado pela força dos mitos e comandado pela publicidade organizada, ideológica ou não, e por isso vem renunciando cada vez, sem o saber, á sua capacidade de decidir.

You're probably right,' I said, but to be honest, I had forgotten to be a Communist that night.

ideologues of every stripe, as well as folks with interests economic, political, or personal, can interpret data and statistics to suit their own purposes...

Trotski describió en una ocasión a los perdedores como los consignados «al cubo de la basura de la historia» y no es un dato desdeñable que las ediciones sucesivas de la Bolshaya sovietskaya entsiklopediya (Gran Enciclopedia soviética) omitiera a personas, ideas y cosas que el Partido Comunista consideraba políticamente incorrectas, especialmente Trotski después de su ruptura con Stalin.

Thus down the ages, millions suffered and died. Bad art and disastrous theology had prepared the way for Hitler and his 'final solution'.

Interpretation though the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.

Interpretation through the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.

Another religious fanatic to whom facts and reality took second place to dogma.

He'd learned long ago that logic and facts never meant anything to true believers—of anything.

Now Savi was playing her part in making sure no other innocents got hurt by psychotic ideologues who believed they had an absolute right to use force to achieve their goal.

Fanatics," Kandara replied automatically. "I'm no longer surprised by what they do, by the misery and suffering they inflict on others. Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause.