Ideology Quotes

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

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Cancer

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970

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• All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Religious

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.6, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.

  Joan Robinson

  Smell, Breaths

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• Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Inspiring, Dream, Teacher

  "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book by Sy Safransky, 1990.

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• You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea.
  You can kill a man, but not an idea.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

  Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you

  Morris Berman

  Ideas

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• A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Real, Thinking, Political

  Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.56, Penguin

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• As time went by we developed a sort of ideology without ever formulating it as such. I've always said that we are documenting the sacred buildings of Calvinism. Calvinism rejects all forms of art and therefore never developed its own architecture. The buildings we photograph originate directly from this purely economical thinking.

  Bernd Becher

  Art, Thinking, Sacred

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• An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.

  Robert E Lane

  Hero, People, Atheism

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• Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Change, Hippie, Liberty

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

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• Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and ethical lives. He was the first to outline clearly what one is tempted to call the elementary scene of ideology, its zero-level, which consists in asserting the (nameless) authority of some substantial Tradition.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Zero, Order, Levels

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• Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

  John le Carre

  Heart, Angel, Self

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• Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

  Mason Cooley

  Passion, Deeds, Explanation

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• Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tyrants, Libertarian Party, Thought Provoking

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

  Alexander Herzen

  Goal, Atheism, Insane

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• It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

  Anthony Daniels

  Tradition, Hard

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• If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond words and actions, and attains to the ultimate Truth only in silence and Love.

  Thomas Merton

  Religious, Silence, And Love

  Thomas Merton, Robert Inchausti (2007). “Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.

  David Brin

  Men, Views, Seductive

  "Earth". Book by David Brin, 1990.

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• All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Reality, People

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

  Saul Alinsky

  Possession, Prerequisites

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Reveille for Radicals”, p.12, Vintage

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• The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.

  Brian Eno

  Becoming, Showbiz, Values

  "A Year With Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

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• One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests.... The operating maxim of the democratic ideology is, "Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.

  Sidney Hook

  Power, Shoes, Judging

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• There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

  Jiang Qing

  Love, Peace, Coexist

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• With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters.

  Dalai Lama

  Relationship, Sister, Wise

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  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Freedom, Independent

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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