Ideological Quotes - Page 4

• You can be completely opposed to an ideological position, and I'm certainly not close to Aznar's ideas, however he was elected by the Spanish people and I demand that respect.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Ideas, People, Demand

  "El Rey se enfrenta a gritos con Chávez en defensa de Aznar: '¿Por qué no te callas?'" by Marisa Cruz, www.elmundo.es. November 10, 2007.

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• When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it's also very hard to produce honest art and honest literature. I decided that I didn't want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because that's also a kind of pressure that doesn't allow absolute freedom. So I decided that I was only going to produce works that were satisfactory to me, and that meant not following any trends and being anti-ideological.

  Gao Xingjian

  Art, Pressure, Literature

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• The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

  John Carroll

  Lying, Pursuit, Ugliness

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• Our enemies are followers of a totalitarian ideology based on Islam, which tells them that Allah wishes to rule the world through them. Israel is a central front in this war. Given the weakness of Western support for the Jews, jihadists see attacking Israel as a strategic tool for eroding the West's ideological defenses and shoring up their supporters throughout the world.

  Caroline Glick

  War, Israel, Support

  "Live From NY’s 92nd Street Y Continues". Vail Daily Article, www.vaildaily.com. October 07, 2007.

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• The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies. ... Subjective reason conforms to anything.

  Max Horkheimer

  Lying, Manipulation, Reason

  Max Horkheimer (2004). “EPZ Eclipse of Reason”, p.17, A&C Black

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• One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Mean, Evil, Politics

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• It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging to the enemy species are human.

  Louis J. Halle

  People, Enemy, Atheism

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• President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Differences, President, Nuclear

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• It's not uncommon for revolutions to stem from a radicalized group just outside the circle of power. That's what the French Revolution was all about; that's what the American Revolution was. The question is: Will all those groups, because of the nature of partisan polarization and ideological polarization, just fight each other? Or is there capacity to organize?

  Chris Hayes

  Fighting, Circles, Groups

  "The age of illusion". Interview with Jake Blumgart, www.origin.salon.com. June 30, 2012.

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• You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Development, Economic

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

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• Liberalism, conservatism, that's irrelevant stuff to Trump. He looks at things in an entirely different way. This is a reason why we, as conservatives, have to remain vigilant as we can to the ideological component of what's going on here, because as it succeeds, we need to be able to tell people why it's working and at the same time be able to contrast and say why it didn't work when the liberals ran the show. This is an ongoing effort.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Effort, Different

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• While Donald Trump doesn't have any systematic ideology, he does have a narrative, and in that narrative, America was once a great country, it's been weakened by poor leadership, and only he can make it great again by taking over. And that's an image of himself as a strongman, a dictator. It isn't the clear ideology of being a fascist or some other clear-cut ideological figure. Rather, it's a narrative of himself as being unique and all-powerful. He believes it, though I'm sure he's got doubts about it.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Country, Believe, Unique

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.

  Paul Weyrich

  Media, Advertisers

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• There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Way, Linux

  "Reclusive Linux founder opens up". Interview with Kristie Lu Stout, edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

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• If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological reasons, and therefore he's not going to get out. So it isn't ultimately about oil or about Israel, it's about a belief. I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying to undo what his father did. But he believes in the mission. The body bags aren't going to deter him. Public dissent isn't going to deter him.

  Seymour Hersh

  Father, Believe, Cutting

  Source: progressive.org

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• Trump is a symptom of widespread disgust, not the head of a carefully crafted ideological movement with a checklist of issues.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Disgusting

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I thought Donald Trump once again just missed a whole bunch of opportunities to bury Hillary Clinton, and he missed them because he's not a politician, and he's not instinctively oriented toward the ideological explanations that undergird Hillary's policies.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Opportunity, Politician, Clinton

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Generally, Putin thinks of himself as Christian. I don't think he is, but he pretends to think that he is. In terms of his ideology he's more like Bush Jr. But he's less ideological. He's thinking more, 'How to stay in power?'

  Ilya Ponomarev

  Christian, Thinking, Term

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to preempt anything that looks like an alternative or a social movement is destroying capitalism.

  David Graeber

  Russia, Movement, Weight

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Left doesn't realize that unless you create a formative culture and a critical consciousness capable of changing the way people think about the common sense assumptions that drive their lives, then you've got an ideological foundation for totalitarianism that not only destroys the capacity to think critically, it destroys the capacity to have convictions at all.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, People, Common Sense

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• Donald Trump is not ideological. Now, to me, that means more than he's not just conservative or liberal. He knows what both things are. It's just not how he looks at the world, and it's not how he sees people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, People, Looks

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Relations of production are first reproduced by the materiality of the processes of production and circulation. But it should not be forgotten that ideological relations are immediately present in these same processes.

  Louis Althusser

  Firsts, Forgotten, Process

  Louis Althusser (2001). “Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.100, NYU Press

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• I'd also hope that my liberal friends, who find in this pope a critic of what they're pleased to call "culture-warrior" Catholics, will read carefully, and ponder even more carefully, what Pope Francis had to say about the "ideological colonization" implicit in Western decadence when he was giving robust pro-life, pro-family talks in the Philippines.

  George Weigel

  Warrior, Giving, Pro Life

  Source: eppc.org

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• The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Usa, America, Moral

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• The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial managers - that is, Wall Street.

  Michael Hudson

  Wall, School, Financial

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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