Quotes About Ideology

Entwined with the strand of conservatism in the Democratic party is the strand of empiricism.

Time to pull the plug on the coma of the left, right paradigm

It is no longer left versus right. It is authoritarianism versus freedom.

Ideology is a ghetto where reason goes to die

mcMarxism: rich liberals using a perverted form of socialism to deliver the gullible into the claws of a corporatocracy

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

He'll be a minister in Spain some day, or, at the very least, ambassador to Washington, he's exactly the kind of pretentious fool with just a thin veneer of cordiality that the Right produces by the dozen and which the Left reproduces and imitates whenever they're in power, as if they were the victims of some form of contagion.

I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other systems have been tried and found wanting. Let this one be tried—if for nothing else, for the novelty of the thing.' Vivekananda

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

The explosion of the grenade in his dug-out made him take leave of the Greco-Latin-Christian civilized world. When he regained consciousness he was on the other side... among the Communists.

Communism existed once, during two 45 minute half-times, when Honved, from Budapest, won over England by 6-3. The English played individually, and the Hungarians, collectively.

Cause, celle-ci, jadis dans le nazisme, aujourd'hui dans les intégrismes religieux, abolissant tout esprit critique et alimentant le fanatisme. Le pire devient alors possible. Particulièrement réticents à l'embrigadement, les jeunes devraient, par chance, nous éviter la réédition de pareilles horreurs.

enthousiasmes militants qui, portés aux extrêmes, entraînent une abnégation absolue pour la Cause, celle-ci, jadis dans le nazisme,

Bundists marched regularly in Times Square, demanding that all "foreigners" be sent back to their own countries and no more admitted; New York had its own share of Nazi sympathizers and American Aryanists.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

It was ironic—the great socialists could only survive by becoming capitalists." But