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Quotes About Ideology

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.
~ John Lydon
I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole.
~ Phil Gramm
I have ruled out Coalitions with Brexiteers because it's so fundamentally opposed to our values.
~ Jo Swinson
Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else.
~ Foucault Michel
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.
~ Frederic Bastiat
What some call superstructure, and what others call culture
~ Frances Fox Piven
Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.
~ Frank Herbert
Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments.
~ Frank Herbert
I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat
~ Frank Herbert
You start by allowing your own world to be corrupted by their warped values, and then you gradually start using their sadistic methods and eventually end up adopting bits of their sick ideology. And even then, when you have become just like them, they will eventually turn on you anyway. Normal people are savage beasts.
~ Frank Portman
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
~ Frank Zappa
During the 1980s, many people mistook Thatcherism and Reaganism - actually a wild form of liberalism - for conservatism.
~ Peter Hitchens
The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.
~ David Remnick
We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.
~ John Lynch
It's time for political leaders across the ideological spectrum to realize that, while partisanship is understandable, hyper-partisanship is destructive to our country. We need more visionary leaders who will earnestly strive for bipartisanship and finding policy solutions that can move America forward.
~ Martin Luther King III
For decades, conservatives have struggled with containing crackpottery, most notably William F. Buckley's famous excommunication of the John Birch Society in the 1960s.
~ Charlie Sykes
There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.
~ Jonathan Turley
The ur-conservatives of the 1950s - William F. Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and all the rest - were revolting not against a liberal administration but against the moderate conservatism of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
~ Max Boot
Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.
~ Eric Cantor
What we are not willing to negotiate and what we will not give in one iota is the revolution, socialism and our sovereignty.
~ Miguel Diaz-Canel
Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.
~ Bob Beauprez
Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
~ Bertrand Russell
A militant's profile lies not in his age, race, culture, or education; anyone can join or be adopted by the al Qaeda network, the only prerequisite being a willingness to accept the group's radical, cultlike ideology.
~ Malcolm Nance