Quotes About Ideology

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.

Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.

Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it's a competitor.

ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient religion distinct from both Islam and Christianity.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

Religious politics is the bent of those who push "The Myth of the Christian Nation" or "Muslim Supremicism" everywhere! ~ © gfp '42™

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.

Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.

It is pointless and impossible to maintain a modern ideology based on inaccurate memories of a dead and distant past.

An atheist who is a statist is just another theist.

A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.

By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.

Do you prefer to be with people who glow with love and compassion or those who burn with anger fueled by religious doctrine or political ideology?

When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.