Quotes About Ideology

I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic.

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.

A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!

The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

We are not shooting enough professors.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

Why are men ever at war? For power and greed and to enforce their own views on others.

All the dangerous glamour had been swept up by the broom of National Socialism,

Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or religion helps solve the problem of how unrelated individuals are to live together without killing each other—by providing them with a bond not based on kinship. Second, it gives people a motive, other than genetic self-interest, for sacrificing their lives on behalf of others.

While most black voters have consistently supported Democrats since the 1960s, it is the white liberals that have slowly withered away over the decades, leaving African Americans as the sole standard bearers for the left."8

If there's one thing I hate the Communists for, Your Excellency,' Foxa once said to Franco, 'it's for obliging me to join the Falange.

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.

Ideologen sind Leute, die glauben, dass die Menschheit besser sei als der Mensch.