Ideology Quotes

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

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.

Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, 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 that we've seen since the beginning of time.

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.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

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.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

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

On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.