Quotes About Ideology

One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization.

The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic Church can be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding of the spiritual nature of the people.

Today religious nuts outnumber monkey nuts in the world.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition

Um tirano vence por seu gênio, mas seu sucessor será sempre um rematado canalha. Por esta razão, luto sem tréguas e apaixonadamente contra os sistemas dessa natureza, contra a Itália fascista de hoje e contra a Rússia soviética de hoje. A atual democracia na Europa naufraga e culpamos por esse naufrágio o desaparecimento da ideologia republicana.

Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are—there we are in the Golden Future.

Those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons—that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

The philosophy that rationalizes power politics and justifies war and military training is always (whatever the religion of the politicians and the war makers) some wildly unrealistic doctrine of national, racial, or ideological idolatry, having, as inevitable corollaries the notions of Herrenvolk and "lesser breeds without the law.

El liberalismo, desde luego, murió de ántrax

existen creencias colectivas por así decir asintomáticas: brotan y se propagan utilizando la conciencia individual como incubadora inconsciente y permanecen sustancialmente ilegibles hasta el momento en que emergen con la rapidez de una pandemia

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

French philosophers had been able to admire Mao and his works because they did not have to live in China at the time.

Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.

Dogma", spelled backwards, is "Am God". When a person allows someone else's dogma to become their God, they have things backwards.

Ideology is a form of cognition. Ideology can of course refer to doctrine, as in the Communist Manifesto, or to practice, as in the division of labor between husbands and wives. Here, however,

ideology refers to belief, or better, to configurations of beliefs. Ideology exists—if it exists—in the mind.

By ideology, Count Antoine Destutt de Tracy meant those ideas drawn from competing political philosophies designed to inspire political loyalties and motivate political action (Lakoff 2011).

Genghis Khan who's read Marx," to quote Bukharin.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Margaret Thatcher: 'Socialism is great—but eventually you run out of other people's money.