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Quotes About Ideology

Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
When you have a strong conservative streak in your society," Zeyk would say, "which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that's when you get the worst kinds of civil wars.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
We're both of the same breed, after all … motives for war are of no concern. Religion, ideology, resources, land, grudges, love, or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it's enough to start a war. Out of love, sacrifice is born. Hate is born. and we are able to know pain! If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them. But just because you understand them doesn't mean you can come to an agreement. That's the truth.
~ Kishimoto Masashi
It looks very much, as if these men are likely to assign a penis to a certain type of woman (the proletarian whore) whose penis they fear as an instrument of castration. The men experience Communism as a direct assault on their genitals!
~ Klaus Theweleit
Det var i Almindelighed folk, som man maatte sige var tat af Vinden. Talere og Skribenter, som havde slaat sig til Ro indenfor Grænserne af sine Evner, og ikke saa længer og ikke tænkte længer. De havde ikke Brug for Udvikling. Der de stod, der stod de. De var Kommunister.
~ Knut Hamsun
the Nazis burned books in public. Liberals suppress opinions that differ from their own through influences they want kept secret. The right wing destroyed books. The left destroys authors. —William Wilde Curringer, Unfinished Memoirs
~ L. Neil Smith
Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology, the ideology of a retarded culture.
~ Geert Wilders
If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
~ Fidel Castro
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
~ Karl Marx
Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages
~ Dennis Prager
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
~ Daniel Dennett
Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.
~ Hemant Mehta
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination
~ Mark Twain
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.
~ Jonathan Haidt
The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force.
~ Wafa Sultan
Liberals want the family destroyed, they want religion destroned, because then you have loyalty directly to the state.
~ Ann Coulter
The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.
~ Ralph Bunche
The Christian religion and National Socialist doctrines are not compatible.
~ Martin Bormann
The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.
~ Ann Coulter
I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Religion is the opiate of the people.
~ Karl Marx