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• Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false.

  Michel Foucault

  Fall, Reality, Illusion

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• Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

  Louis Althusser

  Men, Demand, Existence

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• Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

  Louis Althusser

  Real, Individual, Existence

  Louis Althusser (2008). “On Ideology”, Verso Books

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• Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology seems therefore to take place outside it. That is why those who are in ideology believe themselves by definition outside ideology: one of the effects of ideology is the practical denegation of the ideological character of ideology by ideology: ideology never says, 'I am ideological.'

  Louis Althusser

  Believe, Character, Reality

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• What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the form of knowing,) is the ideology from which it is born, in which it bathes, from which it detaches itself as art, and which it alludes.

  Louis Althusser

  Art, Knowing, Giving

  Louis Althusser (2008). “On Ideology”, Verso Books

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• It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

  Louis Althusser

  Self, Facts, Characteristics

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• Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Long, Live Free, Damn

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.26, Stanford University Press

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• Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.

  Alain Badiou

  Art, Real, Reflection

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• Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Passion, Reality, Men

  "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

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• It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Reality, Issues, People

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• The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Issues, Risk, Matter

  "Turnbull attacks climate sceptics". Interview with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. July 22, 2011.

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• Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.

  Hal Crowther

  Art, Successful, Order

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• In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice one punishes...in the name of love of one's country or of one's race hates other countries, despises them, massacres them. In the name of equality and brotherhood there is suppression and torture. There is nothing in common between the means and the end, the means go far beyond the end...ideologies and religion... are the alibis of the means.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Country, Hate, Mean

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• Everywhere we look, ideology slouches along the freeways and autoroutes, sometimes carrying a cross, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a crescent, but always busy doing somebody in somewhere, somehow.

  Robert Todd Carroll

  Humility, Looks, Sometimes

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• One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind.

  Dalai Lama

  Education, Country, Learning

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the slightest provocation. We should get rid of Cold War thinking and broaden the converging points of our common interests, notwithstanding the differences in social systems and ideologies.

  Wu Bangguo

  War, Thinking, Differences

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• It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as is Nadine Dorries. Like other liberation movements, feminism has an ideology and a goal. It is not about personal liberty and freedom, but the emancipation from oppression and tyranny for ALL women, whatever our race or class.

  Julie Bindel

  Strong Women, Class, Race

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• We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions - by abandoning every value except the will to power - they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.

  George W. Bush

  Lying, Sacrifice, Presidential

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.

  Mark Regev

  Reality, Community, Understanding

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• In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace or of internal conditions rendered intolerable by the unjust restraints of foreign nations. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of the duty of sacrifice.

  John Foster Dulles

  Military, War, Hero

  "War, Peace and Change".

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• The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies.

  John Ralston Saul

  Destiny, Political, Intellectual

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• Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. . . . Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

  Angela Carter

  Change, Historical, Enemy

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• I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

  Ted Kulongoski

  Party, Heart, Soul

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• And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others is often more beneficial than is receiving help. . . . We need the give and the take, we need to belong. An ideology of extreme personal freedom can be dangerous because it encourages people to leave homes, jobs, cities and marriages in search of personal and professional fulfillment, thereby breaking the relationships that were probably their best hope for such fulfillment.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Jobs, Home, Caring

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• Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

  Tony Judt

  People, Inability, Alternatives

  Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.96, Penguin

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