Ideological Quotes

I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.

There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought

You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done.

If you can educate Muslims about their biggest enemy, and if you can solve the problem, the ideological problem, it doesn't give an immediate result, but it's the best thing over the long term.

Exhilarating. Radical Grace moved me to tears with its portrayal of good people putting their beliefs into action in ways that transcend all ideological boundaries.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

Regardless of what ideological twist people may have, about 90 to 95 percent of our population [in Puerto Rico] really values our citizenship. It's of utmost importance.

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

Trump is, to some extent, redefining what we think of as polarization in this country. Where polarization has been seen as ideological, it is now being seen almost as behavioral.

I'm not a particularly ideological person. There's things, some values I feel passionately about.

If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.

I don't think Donald Trump is ideological.

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

ISIS simply do not have ideological, theological, or popular support. And this is a criminal organization that is funding their criminality with things like drug trade and selling oil.

We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.

If you understand liberals at all, you know that they'll never agree to market-based solutions for ideological reasons and because an expanding dependency class is their most essential power source.

Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world.

If George Bush can't get along with Stephen Harper, he can't get along with any world leader. They're ideological cousins, if not twins.

To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality.

An ideological certification to make sure that those we are admitting to our country share our values and love our people.

They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.

I believe that we're in an ideological struggle; I believe the only way to marginalize those who murder the innocent, to achieve our ideological objectives, is to spread democracy and freedom.

If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

You can be completely opposed to an ideological position, and I'm certainly not close to Aznar's ideas, however he was elected by the Spanish people and I demand that respect.

Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.

The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial managers - that is, Wall Street.

The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.

Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of the ideological system.

This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.

Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.