Ideology Quotes

Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom.

Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.

It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Islam is according to me, my party, not so much a religion as well as it is a totalitarian ideology.

I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.

Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free to do what they want, as long as they don't harm others.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

Islam is an ideology. It's not a race.

Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Hitler produced a local "lab experiment"; he provided me with an ideology in the same way that Marx provided one for Lenin. My task is to turn this ideology into a world movement.

Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

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.

For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on ideology.

A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).

The best way to defeat an ideology is with a better ideology. And I believe democracy is a better ideology.

Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.

No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Nowadays, you suffer the same risks - ostracism, career loss, possible assault - for being perceived as racist that you would have encountered a century ago for daring to question racist ideology.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

There's a lot of ideology about "free", that we can have free services, free content, it's one of the reasons why the music industry which I defend has been decimated.

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.