Quotes About Ideology

Ginsburg appreciated that Rehnquist assigned the most interesting cases on the basis not of ideology but of which justices had completed their previous assignments on time.

He urges them to stop believing that they are "conservative" and should therefore tolerate a little the drift into fascism, the better to get tax reform.

most of the Universe's major wars had been caused by zealots aggressively spreading their own religion, so

the Young Turks with a complex nationalist ideology replete with ideas such as "in reality there cannot be a common home and fatherland for different peoples.… The new civilization will be created by the Turkish race."27

Ironically, as Illinois Sen. Richard Yates pointed out, opponents of expansionism employed arguments extremely reminiscent of proslavery ideology, while its supporters upheld the principle that nonwhites could be successfully incorporated into the body politic. (No people, quipped Nevada Sen. James W. Nye, were "too degraded" for citizenship: "We have New Jersey, and all things considered, it has proven a success.")

What distinguishes the various members of the ideological family descended from humanism and the Enlightenment, liberal, socialist, communist, or anarchist, is not the gentle anarchy which is the utopia of all of them, but the methods of achieving it.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

If a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to be unverifiable.

The radical and the reactionary loathe the present. They see it as an aberration and a deformity. Both are ready to proceed ruthlessly and recklessly with the present, and both are hospitable to the idea of self-sacrifice.

The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.

the connection between the escape from an ineffectual self and a responsiveness to mass movements is very clear. The slipping author, artist, scientist—slipping because of a drying-up of the creative flow within—drifts sooner or later into the camps of ardent patriots, race mongers, uplift promoters and champions of holy causes. Perhaps the sexually impotent are subject to the same impulse. (The

For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image.

in order to be effective a doctrine must not be understood, but has rather to be believed in. We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil.

The fanatic cannot be weaned away from his cause by an appeal to his reason or moral sense. He fears compromise and cannot be persuaded to qualify the certitude and righteousness of his holy cause. But he finds no difficulty in swinging suddenly and wildly from one holy cause to another. He cannot be convinced but only converted.

A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action

Talvez valha a pena lembrar que nesse período a ameaça às instituições liberais vinha apenas da direita política, já que entre 1945 e 1989 se supôs, quase como coisa indiscutível, que vinha essencialmente do comunismo.

Indubitably, eighteenth-century literature contains much that nineteenth-century historians might identify as 'domestic ideology', yet these themes were far from revolutionary. The dialectical polarity between home and world is an ancient trope of western writing; the notion that women were uniquely fashioned for the private realm is at least as old as Aristotle.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Parce qu'il y a toujours eu, dans le discours de ceux qui portent traditionnellement les idées du conservatisme, une tonalité identitaire – souvent fondée sur la religion, la nation, la terre, la civilisation, la race, ou un mélange de tout cela.

She said she remembered when Republicans compared President Roosevelt to Hitler and to Stalin and to Mussolini. She said she used to see people wearing I HATE ELEANOR buttons walk past her on the sidewalk and she wanted to spit, she wanted to kill them.

Yeah," Joey muttered. "For one thing, she voted Republican. I can't stand that shit.

I am further left, I am more progressive, than anyone in the state of Kentucky"