Ideological Quotes - Page 9

• If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.

  Kurt Andersen

  Honesty, Political, Intellectual

  "When Good News Feels Bad". archive.frontpagemag.com. February 17, 2005.

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• The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain at the surface, how to subtract it's subject from it's deepest context of historical reality. The same goes for contemporary art, where we often encounter brutal attempts to return to the Real, to remind the spectator or reader that he is perceiving a fiction, to awaken him from a sweet dream.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Dream, Sweet, Art

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• The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding that our goal is to thrive despite racism rather than fetishizing it is, in fact, the central ideological plank of people deemed "black conservatives." This is a coherent position, but that can be hard to perceive, given the way that race has been discussed in our land over the past 40 years or so.

  John H. McWhorter

  Past, Ideas, Race

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• Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Reality, Thinking, Five Senses

  Hannah Arendt (2017). “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.553, Penguin UK

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• If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Men, Abuse

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• Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?'

  Noam Chomsky

  Two, Needs, Racist

  Noam Chomsky (2003). “For Reasons Of State”, p.318, Penguin Books India

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• The Republican Party has become more conservative. The Democratic Party has become marginally more liberal. There's almost no overlap in the middle, ideological overlap, in either house of Congress. That leaves moderates homeless. We have had a hollowing out of the middle in the U.S. Congress. There's less opportunity for compromise.

  Michael Gerson

  Party, Opportunity, House

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

  Roy DeCarava

  Photography, Intellectual, Visuals

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• There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

  Cornel West

  America, Perspective, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Jews were, are, and will remain ideological dope dealers smart enough not to smoke their own stash. They sell equality heroin to you, but they never inject it themselves.

  Alex Linder

  Smart, Dope, Heroin

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• I think what speaks loudest and what speaks to your point is the blood that's spilling from Australia, to now California. I mean, how much blood has to be spilled until we recognize inside of a Muslim community that with do have an ideological problem?

  Dalia Mogahed

  Mean, Thinking, Blood

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• ISIS simply do not have ideological, theological, or popular support. And this is a criminal organization that is funding their criminality with things like drug trade and selling oil.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Isis, Organization, Oil

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• At the moment, the extremists have significant financial popular and theological backing in the Middle East. And that is an enduring phenomenon. And it's one that is going to require a long, ideological war to win.

  Chuck Todd

  War, Winning, Long

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• "The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

  John Zerzan

  Running, Believe, Technology

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• Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

  David Horowitz

  Research, Fields, Modern

  David Horowitz (2013). “The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America”, p.1916, Regnery Publishing

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• Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  War, Discord, Turns

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.25, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• ... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

  Saul Bellow

  Confusion, Age, Eras

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done.

  John F. Kerry

  Change, Impact, Climate

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• I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

  Derek Bailey

  Thinking, Want, Way

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• This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those excluded from its protective cover. Any reference to universal human rights as an 'unfinished project' to be gradually extended to all people is here a vain ideological chimera - and, faced with this prospect, do we, in the West, have any right to condemn the excluded when they use any means, inclusive of terror, to fight their exclusion?

  Slavoj Žižek

  Wall, Mean, Fighting

  Slavoj Žižek (2002). “Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates”, p.150, Verso

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• If George Bush can't get along with Stephen Harper, he can't get along with any world leader. They're ideological cousins, if not twins.

  David Taras

  Cousin, Leader, World

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• Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

  Harry Hay

  Identity Politics, Giving, Support

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• The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

  Nick Clooney

  Struggle, Fighting, Worst

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• It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.

  Imelda Marcos

  Beautiful, Art, Real

  "Imelda". Documentary, Biography, 2003.

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• Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Literature, Privilege, Reason

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