Ideological Quotes - Page 2

• In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

  John Ralston Saul

  Doubt, Doe, Ridiculous

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

  Aldrich Ames

  Real, Resistance, Problem

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• When the President picks someone who is his ideological soul mate, that's his right, in my reading of "advise and consent." I do think, though, the more you get up the ladder, when someone is no longer accountable to the President, and more importantly, will stay in office after the President, the standard gets tougher and tougher.

  Russ Feingold

  Reading, Thinking, Office

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

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• You can be a fanatical millennialist religious mystic, and you are, in a certain way, not outside of ideology. Your position can be that of perfectly describing the data and nonetheless your point is ideological.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Religious, Data, Way

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Thinking, Turkeys, Talking

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• Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world.

  David Remnick

  Europe, Economic Sanctions, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We've always defined conflict fairly broadly from ideological conflict to troops on the ground. For quite some time we've talked about a focus on Palestine. Certainly no one can deny that Israel is conflict with Palestine and no one can deny that the U.S. is the largest supporter of Israel internationally - not only financially, but also in the United Nations where the United States is one of the very few countries that does not recognize Palestine as a state.

  Jon Rubin

  Country, Israel, Focus

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The film and media technology that's available today is going to be the most potent weapon in our arsenal in tackling ideological intolerance and ignorance, as well as the kind of fear and stereotyping that can dehumanize the others as the enemy, as being somehow less entitled to the privileges and the aspirations that we have.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Ignorance, Technology, Media

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• An ideological certification to make sure that those we are admitting to our country share our values and love our people.

  Donald Trump

  Country, People, And Love

  "Donald Trump Delivers Speech on Immigration Policy; Interview with Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Senator Tim Kaine; Trump Calls for "Extreme Vetting" of Immigrant". "New Day", www.cnn.com. September 1, 2016.

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• [VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm an honest reporter or not. And if you're convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn't have listened to a fiction where scenes are made. . . . I've thought quite long and hard about what I want to say in this play. And if it means that every single sentiment that I produce is put minutely under an ideological microscope, that's fine.

  David Hare

  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• I don't think Donald Trump is ideological.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Trump

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• My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Political, Redemption, Moral

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• The American people are a non-ideological people. They very much are looking for common-sense, practical solutions to the problems that they face. Oftentimes they've got contradictory senses of various issues and policy positions and I don't think that either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party necessarily capture their deepest dreams when those parties are described in caricature or in policy terms.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We focus on that really repulsive minority of racists. But then there's a continuum that goes all the way to, you know, what used to be called the white backlash or to, you know, the feelings of some white people that they're losing out and that the jobs and power and sort of the culture is drifting away from them and toward people who don't look like them, who don't - who they don't know very well. And that's not necessarily - I don't equate that with the hardcore ideological hatred of self-identified racists.

  George Packer

  Jobs, Self, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can address the historical, structural and ideological conditions at the core of the violence being waged by the corporate and repressive state and to make clear that government under the dictatorship of market sovereignty and power is no longer responsive to the most basic needs of young people - or most people for that matter.

  Henry Giroux

  Artist, Government, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As young people make diverse claims on the promise of a radical democracy, articulating what a fair and just world might be, they are increasingly met with forms of physical, ideological and structural violence.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Promise, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Party, Two, Political

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• If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.

  John Kasich

  Party, Winning, Want

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.

  Mao Zedong

  Issues, People, Criticism

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• In our decrees, it is definitely proclaimed that religion is a question for the private individual; but whilst opportunists tended to see in these words the meaning that the state would adopt the policy of folded arms, the Marxian revolutionary recognizes the duty of the state to lead a most resolute struggle against religion by means of ideological influences on the proletarian masses.

  Leon V. DePoncins

  Struggle, Mean, Arms

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• We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the basis of gender is an empirically supportable, and even well-supported, proposition. The gender scholars reject it on ideological, not evidentiary, grounds.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Support, Biology, Gender

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• The ultimate cause of the October Crisis was the ideological embrace of Milton Friedman's warped but still dominant view that "the only social responsibility of business is to make a profit for its shareholders," and until that socially and economically counterproductive - and empirically, legally and ethically inaccurate - view is corrected, we will continue to have the increasing and more intense crises of global capitalism that we have seen recur with ever greater frequency over the past forty years. Sadly but clearly, the lessons have still not been learned.

  Chip Pitts

  Responsibility, Past, October

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

  Charles Schumer

  Warrior, Law, Judging

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• Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and derision and targets of persecution for either side... in the great ideological wars of our time.

  Isaiah Berlin

  War, Tyrants, Yesterday

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• My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical, ideological.

  Chris Abani

  Religious, Historical, Identity

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