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• Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Absence

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• He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

  Theodor Adorno

  Running, Believe, Risk

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

  Theodor Adorno

  Pride, Goods, Delivering

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.196, Verso

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• Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Equality, Two, Political

  "Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination". Book by N.D. Arora, 2010.

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• Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

  Karl Barth

  God, Challenging The Status Quo, Revelations

  "An Almanac of the Christian Church". Book by William D. Blake, 1987.

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• The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

  Tony Blair

  Memories, War, Europe

  Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

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• I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Country, Independent, Men

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• President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks to terrorize us into retreating from the world stage. But President Obama has made it a priority to renew American leadership in the world, strengthening our alliances and deepening partnerships.

  John O. Brennan

  Play, Priorities, President

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• The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Communication, Mean

  "Why the Religious Right Will Dominate" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

  James Carville

  Psychology, Important, What's Important

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• There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

  Vinton Cerf

  Engineering, Data, Administration

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• Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Sofas

  "City Aphorisms: Third Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1986.

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• The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

  Billy Corgan

  Pumpkin, Smashing, Fingers

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• I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

  Russell Crowe

  Commitment, Matter, Villain

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• On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Taken, Play, Feelings

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• I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making the money back at corporate headquarters. But if people want to do that, they're free to do it.

  Alan Dershowitz

  People, Hamburgers, Want

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• In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Rights, Support, World

  Alan Dershowitz (2014). “Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel's Just War Against Hamas”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

  Freeman Dyson

  Believe, Fall, People

  Freeman Dyson (1999). “Imagined World”, p.37, Universities Press

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• It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

  Jane Fonda

  Country, Pregnancy, People

  "Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Have Not Reduced Teen Pregnancy" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2009.

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• I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Doctrine, Sides

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• Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

  Steven Pinker

  Technology, Humanity, Violence

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• I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

  Steven Pinker

  Struggle, Thinking, Years

  "The Violent Dangers of Ideology". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. November 03, 2011.

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• Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

  Steven Pinker

  Climate, Scarcity, Waste

  "Steven Pinker: 'Artists used to gush about the beauty of war. The First World War put an end to that'". Interview with Clint Witchalls, www.independent.co.uk. November 10, 2011.

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• By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Self, Goal, Lines

  "The Hard-Line on Grocery Items" by Queen Rania al Abdullah, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2010.

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• No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mother, Peace, War

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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