Quotes About Ideology

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

My parents were extremely liberal. They didn't believe in being Catholic or Protestant, and that was a big deal at the time.

George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.

The great Comrade Kim Jong Il was an outstanding leader who, true to the President's great idea, developed Chongryon into a pacesetter of patriotism, into a model of patriotic loyalty to the motherland, and into a prototype body of overseas compatriots.

When we decided to go to Cuba to perform, we did it because we just wanted to build a bridge, you know, between Cuba and the rest of the community. And we just wanted to prove that music and art need to be over all ideology or way to think life, and we just wanted to go in there and play just because of love.

The Berlin Wall fell because the East Germans saw the West had more. The Koreans don't like the Japanese and try to prove to them that they are worth more in the industrial arena.

Historically, religion has often proved a more lethal and more divisive force than any secular ideology. It has also often been a more divisive force than race.

We argue that if happiness has come to be so prominent in neoliberal societies, it is because it has proven a very useful concept for rekindling, legitimizing and re-institutionalizing individualism in seemingly non-ideological terms through science's 'neutral' and authoritative discourse.

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation

Lenin is supposed to have once said

deconstruction of the administrative state." For four decades, America has largely been run by people who openly pledge to destroy the very government they lead.

For four decades, America has largely been run by people who openly pledge to destroy the very government they lead. Is it any wonder that they have succeeded?

Cas Mudde, a Dutch political scientist, provides the most useful definition of populism: an ideology "that considers society to be ultimately separated into two homogenous and antagonistic groups: 'the pure people' and 'the corrupt elite,' and argues that politics should be an expression of the volonté générale (general will) of the people.

camarada bolchevique Yevgueni Preobrazhenski* sí describió la prensa de papel moneda como «esa ametralladora del Comisariado de Finanzas que vomitaba fuego en la retaguardia del sistema burgués».

Saiba que ceder aos instintos é multiplicar o bordel burguês. E quem diz isso não sou eu, é Lenin.

Pertenezco a una generación que ha heredado el descreimiento en la fe cristiana y que ha creado en sí misma un descreimiento en todas las demás fes.

Se o que há de lixo moral e mental em todos os cérebros pudesse ser varrido e reunido, e com ele se formar uma figura gigantesca, tal seria a figura do comunismo, inimigo supremo da liberdade e da humanidade.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

I hope you don't have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.