Ideology Quotes

Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

I don't bring any ideology or barriers with me into my music.

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

When ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre.

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

There are Muslims, who are moderate Muslims. And there's more of them than there are radicalized Muslims and are using Islam in its misinterpreted ideology.

I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

I don't want to overstate tantra because I'm sure there are scumbags everywhere, but it seems like it's an ideology that actually respects female desire.

I've never understood this puritanical idea that feminism has to be a cult. You know, we all have to think alike or dress alike or have a similar ideology.

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology.

What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

What's worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical and appears to have no ideology at all? Neither one of those things is great.

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

I'm not fond of ideologies. I don't like it when people have answers before they know the question.

The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.

It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.

Ideology has consequences.

Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

If you're willing to recognize the religious element in one secular ideology, you need to be able to recognize it in your own.

I analyze people's ideology, and I know leftists and liberals like the back of my hand.

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

You photograph with all your ideology.

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen.

I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.

I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.

It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient religion distinct from both Islam and Christianity.

The main problem is that many support the United Russia Party without even agreeing with its ideology - or even having an ideology of their own.

Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."