Quotes About Ideology

As the importance of ideology declined, I began to feel that maybe ideology was a weapon that suited only certain hostile conditions of life.

In many instances Christianity provides Communism with its justification. Communism is paying the unpaid bills of the Christian church.

She'll have to learn the symbolism of the revolution," somebody said. "But why can't Communism speak a language she understands?" I asked.

Ah tol yuh t leave them Reds erlone! They don mean no body no good! When men starts t deny Gawd, nothin good kin come from em!

La crueldad gratuita... Hay que reconocer que no pasa nunca de moda, y los nazis la habían elevado a la categoría de filosofía.

Conservatives felt victimized by a sort of radicalism that, because it graced Middle American classrooms, did not seem radical to most Americans at all.

Ideology is masturbation, a jerk-off afforded to those few privileged with time on their hands and no wolves at the door.

Life in a Communist country is an intellectually empty life and we suffered the constant pangs of intellectual starvation.

He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to be wrong, and meanwhile it made little difference to the way he lived.

If I've learned one thing in Spain, it's that we have to fight the Communists just as hard as the Fascists. They're both evil.

They carried Union Jack flags. Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

Sabes lo que dice la gente? «Cuarenta y cinco años de comunismo y seguimos sin tener papel higiénico» ¡Somos pobres! El comunismo no funciona.

A veces la Unión Soviética parecía más un monasterio medieval donde todo el mundo había hecho voto de pobreza y obediencia.

Why was it, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

La mejor protección contra el comunismo es la prosperidad. Stalin lo sabe, y por eso no quiere que Alemania salga de la pobreza.

In 1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?

Cuánto tiempo necesitáis antes de que acabéis admitiendo que el comunismo es un fracaso?

Despite being some of the most powerful people in the world, the top men in the Kremlin were scared of stepping out of line. Marxism-Leninism answered all questions, so the eventual decision would be infallibly correct. Anyone who had argued for a different outcome was therefore revealed to be culpably out of touch with orthodox thinking. Dimka sometimes wondered if it was this bad in the Vatican.

Es cierto. Si algo he aprendido en España es que tenemos que combatir a los comunistas tanto como a los fascistas. Son perversos, los unos y los otros.

El socialismo significa libertad, incluso para los contrarrevolucionarios.

El comunismo es una misión sagrada. Está por encima de todo lo demás, incluso de nuestros lazos familiares y nuestra propia seguridad personal».

Supongo que me pregunto si la política podría separarnos.

La mejor protección contra el comunismo es la prosperidad.

que había alentado al Ejército Rojo a comportarse como unas bestias enloquecidas en Alemania…