Ideological Quotes - Page 7

• I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or wrong, or black or white, or whatever. To me, I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things.

  John O. Brennan

  Fall, Thinking, White

  "Obama's Drone-Master". Interview with Reid Cherlin, www.gq.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.

  Oliver Stone

  Security

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct something to take its place.

  Julian Huxley

  Mean, People, Doe

  "Essays of a Humanist (The New Divinity)". Book by Julian Huxley, 1964.

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• One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

  Daniel Bell

  Machines, Turns, Prepared

  Daniel Bell (1962). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties : with "The Resumption of History in the New Century"”, p.405, Harvard University Press

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• It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

  Hilton Als

  Art, Artist, Western

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of Germanism, in so far as this is grounded in its genesis and later tradition; it fails, however, in the moment when this defense of national interests must take place in a province which is either absent from the general line of its ideological world and traditional development, or is for some reason rejected.

  Adolf Hitler

  Defense, Development, World

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• If you can educate Muslims about their biggest enemy, and if you can solve the problem, the ideological problem, it doesn't give an immediate result, but it's the best thing over the long term.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Long, Giving, Enemy

  "Son of Hamas". GQ interview, www.gq.com. March 11, 2010.

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• 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.

  Steve Forbes

  Government, Chinese, Losing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The left have taken a really beautiful thing, male-female relationships, and turned them into a battle, a political battle, an ideological war. And if you doubt me, what is the War on Women? What the hell is it? How crazy is that entire concept, that there is a political party conducting a War on Women because they hate them. And the fact that they can sell that to their voters and make political gain on that basis is damn amazing to me. And yet how many people do you know who really believe that there's a War on Women, that Republicans/conservatives don't like women?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Beautiful, War, Hate

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think that there has been a long and storied history in America of left-wing movements being actively, systematically, violently destroyed, disrupted, infiltrated, sabotaged, etc. by the U.S. government and its various intelligence agencies and that remains a greater challenge to their existence, traction, popularity, etc. than any sort of ideological infighting.

  Kool A.D.

  Thinking, Long, Challenges

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Another immigration reform involves new screening tests for all applicants that include - and this is so important, especially if you get the right people, and we will get the right people - 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, Important

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Ideological pressure is much more crippling than commercial pressure. Crippling to your own freedom of thinking and creating, crippling the final results. If you wanted to succeed during the really hard-line totalitarian regime, you have to make so many compromises to please the censors that you don't recognize the original idea from the final result.

  Milos Forman

  Thinking, Succeed, Compromise

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm ideological foundation, more similar to Mexico under the PRI than Russia under Stalin. But the measurement of the political and the economic evolution has not yet been completed, and is one of the weak points of the system.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Party, Russia, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.

  Lilia Shevtsova

  Russia, Color, Century

  Lilia Shevtsova (2010). “Putin's Russia”, p.64, Carnegie Endowment

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• Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of the ideological system.

  Noam Chomsky

  Interest, Concern, Particular

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• There needs to be a public dawning - and it is beginning to dawn on some members of the public - that how science is practiced actually makes a difference in their lives. If evidence becomes optional, if ideological assertions or beliefs are just as good as scientifically vetted evidence, then their quality of life suffers. I think that's dawning on people. There's a level of concern unlike anything I've seen.

  Rush D. Holt, Jr.

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "One of the Most Famous Scientists in the World Just Explained Why Trump Is an Existential Threat". Interview With Emily Atkin, www.motherjones.com. February 28, 2017.

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• Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For every one of those decisions, maybe there's another decision that could have been made, should have been made.

  Arundhati Roy

  Philosophical, Should Have, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less resilient enemy, the American people. Here, the prospects for success are much greater. The battleground is ideological, not military. At stake are the lessons to be drawn from the American war in Indochina; the outcome will determine the course and character of new imperial ventures.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, War, Character

  Source: chomsky.info

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• In recent years, even as the court has become an increasingly political body, the Senate is not focused on preserving any perceived ideological balance when Democrat presidents have appointed people to the court.

  Sam Brownback

  Years, People, Political

  Sam Brownback's speech at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• The place of electronic music, culturally and socially, is today completely different - it is now everywhere, and it has been totally accepted. Consequently, there is now a younger generation that is more focused on making great electronic music, good parties, and having fun, where there is not any more so much need for cultural and ideological statements in electronic music itself.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Fun, Party, Today

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I actually think the only way that you can beat Trump is recognizing that he is a one- man wrecking machine fueled by this cult personality. So you have to attack him on those bases. None of these ideological positioning issues matter for [Donald] Trump.

  Bernie Sanders

  Men, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If 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.

  Seymour Hersh

  Cutting, Loss, Israel

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Dogma, Mindset, Certain

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics of a form of economic Darwinism that now governs much of the world. This system must be demystified, politicized, and recognized for the ways in which it has come to pose a dire threat to democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  Political Language, Democracy, Needs

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• Objectivism is basically the same thing as faith-based science or for that matter faith-based foreign policy, where you start out with the assumption "We are good, they are evil," or "We know what is good and right and we know what is wrong," so all questions are settled in advance by a set of ideological prejudices.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Evil, Prejudice, Matter

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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