Quotes About Ideology

Ideology is not simply an idea reproduced by individuals though a system of representation. Rather, it is a lived experience.

On returning to Germany, he rejoined Hitler, whom he believed to be the only man who could make Germany great again.

bodies. They operate within a broad ideological

One person's religion is another person's cult.

For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I mean, not the sex).

The irony at the base of this situation is that the gospel of the free market is just as ideological as those of communism and fascism.

Close dancing may be the best inoculation against ideology.

The Communists offer them another kind of revolution, glittering and seductive in its superficial appeal.

noble cause after all; maybe we were fighting against a cruel and vicious enemy that was in the service of an aggressive, hateful ideology with designs on enslaving other peoples and other countries; maybe—just maybe—we were doing the right thing.

Defeat: The Liberal Way of War After studying hundreds of books written by liberals about the Vietnam War, you realize that their prime objection to this war, waged by liberal presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson, was that it was just too hard to win. They never stepped back and recognized that what made it hard to win was fighting it the liberal way of limited war where you tell the enemy your limits;

Hanoi was cruel to its own citizens; it was cruel to our citizens; law and human rights are bourgeois concepts for which the Communists in Hanoi had little respect.

Woe to him who doesn't know this Christian faith is bourgeois.

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The history of the transformation of myth into religion (ideology) is not separable from the history of the constitution of a corps of specialized producers of religious rites and discourses, i.e. the progress of the division of religious labour, which is itself a dimension of the progress of the division of social labour, and hence the division into classes.

I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his ideology, he had picked up from Auguste Perret.

Obviously, there's always a battle over philosophical leanings and persuasions, but the bottom line here is that Americans need to understand that this is an ideology in jihadist terrorism that is dangerous beyond words, and we need the moderate Muslim voices to be heard here if this is to be diminished in Islam itself.

When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.

I tend to vote Republican, but I don't like the hardcore views on either side, and I'm not in bed with anybody.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

I would always vote for Tory candidates in the United Kingdom, and I would probably be Republican if I was an American.

I wouldn't vote for Obama.

Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.

When Stephen Harper was elected as the new Conservative Prime Minister - and he talked about repealing gay marriage and putting it to a vote in the House of Commons - Elton and I talked about getting married in Canada to make a statement, for ideological and political reasons.

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.