Quotes About Ideology

I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life.

Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism." [ Address to National Press Club in Washington DC , as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)]

What is a communist? One who hath yearningsFor equal division of unequal earnings.

Russians accuse Mao of seeking "world holocaust.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

The conservatives love their cheap labor; the liberals love their cheap cause.

In this respect the differences between the USA and the USSR are those of evangelical dinosaurs competing for domination on one small planet: the first deifies Jesus Christ, the other Karl Marx. Neither has much practical interest in what those two sincere and hard-working fellows actually preached.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.

Analogies with the past are never properly accurate and analogies especially with the rising fascism can be easily misleading, but in pure chronology I sometimes wonder if we're not in the 1920s or 1930s again... This ideology now has a state, Iran, that is prepared to back and finance terror in the pursuit of destabilising countries whose people wish to live in peace.

There were people who got me very involved in politics. But then there was also a book. It was a trilogy, a biography of Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher, which made a very deep impression on me and gave me a love of political biography for the rest of my life.

How happy we would be if terrorists would adore their ideology less and question more. However, we don't like to apply that to ourselves; we think we're all right and the terrorists are wrong. But a terrorist to you is a martyr to the other side.

Say that he was right about how bad it was in the Soviet Union, but he just didn't understand the nice materialism of the West. Say that the Soviet Union was bad because the people were deprived of meaningless creature comforts, and that the West is good because the people are flooded with them.

Perhaps the most instructive aspect of Augustus' approach to politics was his twin recognition that in the long run power was unsustainable without consent, and that consent could best be won by associating radical constitutional change with a traditional and moralizing ideology.

Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the 'other God that failed' alongside Communism and radical socialism.4

The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right.

The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right. [Atticus PÅ«nd]