Quotes About Ideology

Young adults across America prefer socialism (fairness) to capitalism (selfishness).' Socialism doesn't simply equal 'fairness.' What it really equals is the abolition of private property; in a socialist economy, the government decides what will be produced, how, and for whom." -p. 13

When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

you can't begin to understand things like aggression, competition, cooperation, and empathy without biology; I say this for the benefit of a certain breed of social scientist who finds biology to be irrelevant and a bit ideologically suspect when thinking about human social behavior.

In contrast, conservatives heavily value loyalty, authority, and sanctity. Obviously, this is a big difference. Is it okay to criticize your group to outsiders? Rightists: no, that's disloyal. Leftists: yes, if justified. Should you ever disobey a law? Rightists: no, that undermines authority. Leftists: of course, if it's a bad law. Is it okay to burn the flag? Rightists: never, it's sacred. Leftists: come on, it's a piece of cloth.

The standard, convincing explanation for the link is that RWA provides simple answers, ideal for people with poor abstract reasoning skills.

religious wars, which are, to cite a quote generally attributed to Napoleon, "people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

D]iese skeptische Gegenwart glaubt weder an Gott noch an die Humanität, weder an Kronen noch Sittlichkeit - oder sie glaubt an alles zusammen, was auf das gleiche hinauskommt.

Authoritarians are content to forbid people from speaking truths; totalitarians feel they must take the further step of compelling people to speak falsehoods.

We can anticipate Mises's ultimate conclusion: There is no viable third system. People must choose between capitalism and socialism.

Here she was, stretched out on her back on a concrete bench, reading a book. It was The fountainhead , that noxious piece of crap that was then enjoying a certain vogue.

The purpose of science in understanding who we are as humans is not to rob us of our sense of mystery, not to cure us of our sense of mystery. The purpose of science is to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate that mystery. To always use it in a context where we are helping people in trying to resist the forces of ideology that we are all familiar with.

and that is the model of reality my dad subscribes to.

the novel is a vicious attack on the guiding ideology of the party – Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought.

A religious war is like killing someone over who has the better imaginary friend.

And they never promoted anybody who could do the math, because anyone who could do enough math to understand physical limits would be opposed to socialism in the first place.

At least I never voted Republican. -Tony Kushner

A diferencia del estalinismo y otras dictaduras que se apropiaron, sin más, del poder, el nazismo se sustentó en una base popular.

This is how terrorists get started, this kind of harmless fun.

If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.

Ideology is the science of idiots.

I was a Political Science major.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.