Ideology Quotes

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

No one can escape the influence of a prevailing ideology.

My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems.

Methodology is applied ideology.

Islam is an ideology and there's a religious component to it that's radicalized and in some cases it masks itself behind that religion, especially in America, because of freedom of religion.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships.

An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.

It doesn't matter what your ideology is, people don't like to [be] lied to.

Everywhere we look, ideology slouches along the freeways and autoroutes, sometimes carrying a cross, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a crescent, but always busy doing somebody in somewhere, somehow.

I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.

I have to say that I saw terrorists in 2002, went to Islamabad, Pakistan, and met women who were supporting this ideology. I call them the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary back then.

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of the hateful foreign ideology. Believe me.

Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.

The rise of Hamas is a product of the failures of political will in the international community, of the absence of the peace process, of the increase in violence and ideology.

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

I want the American people to understand that conservatism... is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.

My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.

The Islamic ideology is a political ideology based on a religion.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

The establishment's gonna come together to protect themselves regardless of ideology.

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

Ideology makes people stupid.

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

The terrorists do not speak for over a billion Muslims who reject their hateful ideology.

Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them.

It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.

His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

Hanks' ideology first came into our zone shortly after 9/11, when he criticized me for asking Hollywood telethon stars to become more aggressive in getting the money to 9/11 families.

If you don't provide a product that is satisfying people, no matter what your ideology, they tell you to take a hike.

Today, rather than talk in terms of ideology or ideas like socialism, I think more important issues to discuss are things like compassion and accountability.

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.

The [Sarah ]Palin endorsement as sort of vouching for Donald Trump is all about. She is the sort of tribune of not conservatism as ideology.

David Frum has been saying - [Donald] Trump is all about conservatism as identity, not conservatism as ideology.

Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil.