Ideology Quotes

Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderin...

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgement...

Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion...

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society t...

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to res...

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are pe...

Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other peo...

At the very best there are two major problems with ideology. The first is that it does not represent...

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. Bu...

Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericali...

everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent

The method of addition is quite charming if it involves adding to the self such things as a cat, a d...

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, ...

For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not impor...

Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communicatio...

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a ...

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought aga...

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

Let's think of that moment when a woman washed the feet of Jesus with the nard, so expensive: it is ...

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is becaus...

Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge.

Interestingly, one mate of mine, a proper leftie, in his heyday all Red Wedge and right-on punch-ups...

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secul...

At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain tro...

When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help ...

If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.

Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we ...

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions...

Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controll...

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortun...

If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscio...

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who h...

What Althusser does… is to rethink the concept of ideology in terms of Lacan’s ‘imaginary’. For the ...

There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it ha...

Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious...

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had th...

For a brief moment I felt I was the older, the more mature."A gift of life," I responded, "if not to...

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understandi...

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where every...

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the...

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the r...

But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons ...

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. ...

Implicit … in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility...

Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradic...

And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in...

I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since...

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

I am apt, however, to entertain a Suspicion, that the World is still too young to fix any general st...

if you do not share the universities' values, it could be a big mistake to send your children to col...

«…you’re too old not to have had, how shall I say, certain experiences. You’ve had bad internet date...

The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption f...

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for ...

A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way...

Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual...

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not tha...

Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are relat...

The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance the...

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

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

They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got ...

When we think of readapting mankind to a world of unity and co-operation, we have to consider that p...

The most striking difference between the ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satis...

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is esp...

For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history...

Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity t...