Quotes About Ideology

Every liberal position is built on a fallacy.

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.

Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been out there, who has offered an alternative - the person who offered an alternative, for example, is... Paul Ryan.

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

So the Republican party of Teddy Roosevelt and John McCain and Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush is dead. It's over. It doesn't exist anymore.

It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.

It was my full intent as a teenager to smash capitalism and eat dumpster food.

In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

When I was a rebellious teenager, I wanted minimum government and maximum freedom, which is really just maximum fun. Somewhere down the road, that went from being a liberal thing to being a conservative thing.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

And believe me, there is nobody who hates Communism more than a former Communist.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

And people would believe it, thought Hartmann, because people believed what they wanted to believe – that was Goebbels's great insight. They no longer had any need to bother themselves with inconvenient truths. He had given them an excuse not to think.

Nearly all libertarians were once conservatives or progressives or independent statists of some stripe. But scarcely any conservatives, progressives, or independent statists were once libertarians. This asymmetry in the direction of ideological migration is interesting and perhaps informative.

He summed up his admiration-tinged condemnation of the Communists in the simple statement: "They lie so truly.

this is the way of the Communists - using good words to do bad things

History had not led to the triumph of liberalism; it had led to Hitler and Stalin.

Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

easy thing to be brave and bellicose about it. But if you had, it was hard not to despair. What men could wantonly do to each other, in the name of nation or faith or ideology, was unthinkable.

If you had never seen war up close, it was an easy thing to be brave and bellicose about it. But if you had, it was hard not to despair. What men could wantonly do to each other, in the name of nation or faith or ideology, was unthinkable.