Ideology Quotes - Page 18

• The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Powerful, Character, Reality

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

  Tom Robbins

  Ends, Ultimate, Totalitarianism

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• When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mean, Numbers, America

  "Arundhati Roy: "We May Not Need Peace in This Unjust Society; You Need People Who Are Prepared to Resist"". "Democracy Now!" Interview, www.alternet.org. March 23, 2010.

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• What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.

  Salman Rushdie

  Stupid, Thinking, Law

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• Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Age, Dams

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.62, Routledge

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• Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.

  Joe Slovo

  Long, Suits, Sometimes

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• The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

  Susan Sontag

  Liberty, Expansion, Possibility

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.118, Penguin UK

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• Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Political, Disease

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Party, Moving, Winning

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• The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.

  John Sununu

  Party, Independent, Talking

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• The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

  Matt Taibbi

  Giving, Greed, Culture

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• Perhaps my children will one day pledge their loyalty to the Republican Party. Or perhaps they'll dismiss my liberalism as mild pap, and become anarchists. Either way may well be a reaction to my manipulation, my values. We are all the product of the indoctrination we received at the hands of our parents, even when we are repudiating that ideology.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Loyalty, Children, Party

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• Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

  Reza Aslan

  People, Use, Justify

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• The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.

  Romola Garai

  Baby, Fighting, Order

  "I celebrate the defiance in Pussy Riot's eyes" by Romola Garai, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Driven, Profit

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• In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Philosophy, Real, Thinking

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• White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples.

  Cornel West

  Order, White, People

  Cornel West (2000). “Race Matters”, p.85, Beacon Press

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• You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  People, Embrace, Wholeheartedly

  "The Neutronium Alchemist". Book by Peter F. Hamilton, 1997.

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• The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.

  Kathleen Norris

  Christian, Ideas, Desire

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• I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

  Doris Lessing

  Common Sense, Feminist, Hated

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• We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

  Salman Rushdie

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Historical, Patterns, Consciousness

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• I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

  Robert Wyatt

  Sports, Fashion, Thinking

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• Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Moving, Writing, Fighting

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• I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Believe, Ignorance, Carpe Diem

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