Quotes About Ideologies

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

And in my family, there were two pillars of beliefs: Christian faith on my father's side, Chinese fate on my mother's. Picture these two ideologies as you might the goalposts of a soccer field, faith at one end, fate at the other, and me running between them trying to duck whatever dangerous missile had been launched in the air.

in part because those countries have switched their foundational ideologies from ones that glorify zero-sum class and national struggle to ones that glorify positive-sum market cooperation.

The lure of the various isms, though hardly unknown to religious people, may be even more intense for those who avoid religion.

it is easy to forget that religious art is dedicated to the regnant creation story, that deviation from the story is not permitted, and that brutal wars have been fought to replace one story over another. The secular humanities, to put the matter plainly, must compete with organized religions and religion-like ideologies for attention and volunteer public funding. The first is free to explore and innovate; the other is not.

The most difficult achievement is the capacity to see oneself, to name oneself, to imagine oneself. If in daily life we use ideologies, common sense, religion, even literature itself to disguise our experiences and make them presentable, in fiction it's possible to sweep away all the veils—in fact, perhaps, it's a duty.

When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

Both the United States and the Soviet Union had been born in revolution. Both embraced ideologies with global aspirations: what worked at home, their leaders assumed, would also do so for the rest of the world.

El comunismo, el anarquismo y el fascismo penetran en un pueblo que lleva siglos queriendo ajustar cuentas consigo mismo... Y que, en su mayor parte, apenas sabe leer.

Si nos pusiéramos a enumerar las series de las grandes ideas originales que el hombre ha alumbrado a lo largo de su historia, nos encontraríamos que son relativamente pocas y casi nunca enteramente originales. Las más cautivantes ideologías que ha producido Occidente son hijas de mil padres y siempre es posible hallar sus más remotas raíces en algún fragmento de un filósofo griego.

I had heard "communist bloc" and "behind the iron curtain" so much in the media, that i had naturally formed the impression that these countries were all the same. Although they are all socialist, East Germany, Bulgaria, Cuba, and North Korea are as different as night and day.

The history of ideologies should teach modesty, or at least warn against fixations and biases.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

Conservatives commonly characterize liberals in three ways: (1) as lovers of bureaucracy; (2) as defenders of special interests; and (3) as advocating only rights and no responsibilities (the "permissive society").

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.

The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on.

The Constitution separated the ideologies and values of the Church from the State, and leaders of the State were thus educated in matters pertaining to the State. These leaders proved themselves time after time with their pragmatic intellectual capacities.

Never before has the message of solidarity been so gravely needed. We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

recuérdese las encíclicas papales y los pronunciamientos de la Iglesia católica contra él, que todavía perduran pese a la existencia de tantos creyentes liberales— y, luego, del socialismo y el comunismo