Ideology Quotes - Page 23

• I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism…The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.

  Saul Alinsky

  Religious, Political, Independence

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• There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments. In communal society, where there are virtually no class divisions, man's productive activities on outlook and culture is less discernible. Account must be taken of the psychology of conflicting classes.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Taken, Struggle, Men

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• Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Government, Ignorant Masses

  "Force and Opinion". Article by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info. July, 1991.

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• There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's a first approximation, but one that is real. In the former, the factors of integrity tend to dominate more over the factors of ideology. It's not that scientists are more honest people. It's just that nature is a harsh taskmaster. You can lie or distort the story of the French Revolution as long as you like, and nothing will happen. Propose a false theory in chemistry, and it'll be refuted tomorrow.

  Noam Chomsky

  Integrity, Real, Lying

  "Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent". Book by Robert F. Barsky, 1997.

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• Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self, Justice, Feminist

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• How will the family unit be destroyed? ...[T]he demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically independent, either through a job or welfare.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Jobs, Husband, Independent

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• Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in the market.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Strong, Technology, Government

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future.

  Jay Inslee

  Progress, Energy, Climate

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• It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Fate, Has Beens, Nations

  Quoted in the NewYork Times, 2 Jul 1989.

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• If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable.

  Benito Mussolini

  Attitude, Energy, Facts

  "Rational Man : A Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics". Book by H. B. Veatch, 1962.

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• The people who did this act on America, and who may be planning further acts, are evil people. They don't represent an ideology, they don't represent a legitimate political group of people. They're flat evil. That's all they can think about, is evil. And as a nation of good folks, we're going to hunt them down, and we're going to find them, and we will bring them to justice.

  George W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Evil People

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• Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Simple, Punishment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.67, A&C Black

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• Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by the materialistic and scientific ideology of psychoanalysis, that is, a historical product.

  Mircea Eliade

  Reality, Historical, Looks

  Mircea Eliade (1989). “Journal II, 1957-1969”, p.269, University of Chicago Press

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• It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

  Joe Slovo

  Inhuman, Has Beens

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• What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.

  Mark Steyn

  Fighting, Men, Texas

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• For the sake of the Gospel, it was worth it… All you have to do is look at any society where there is no Jesus. I’ll give you four: Nazis, no Jesus. Look at their record. Uh, Shintos? They started this thing in Pearl Harbor. Any Jesus among them? None. Communists? None. Islamists? Zero. That’s eighty years of ideologies that have popped up where no Jesus was allowed among those four groups. Just look at the records as far as murder goes among those four groups.

  Phil Robertson

  Jesus, Zero, Years

  "What the Duck?" by Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.

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• I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it. Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

  Yves Tanguy

  Art, Believe, Jealous

  Yves Tanguy (1974). “Yves Tanguy: Catalog of an Exhibition November 7-December 7, 1974”

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• The fact that so many people choose to live in ways that narrow the community of fate to a very limited set of others and to define the rest as threatening to their way of life and values is deeply worrying because this contemporary form of tribalism, and the ideologies that support it, enable them to deny complex and more crosscutting mutual interdependencies-local, national, and international-and to elude their own role in creating long-term threats to their own wellbeing and that of others.

  Margaret Levi

  Fate, Creating, Long

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• It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the ideological balance of the electorate in 2012 could look a lot like it did this year.

  William Galston

  Stupid, Years, Two

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• The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct, he was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under 'M' for mankind... in the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, Men, Rights

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• It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).

  George Soros

  Investing, Credit, Matter

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.20, John Wiley & Sons

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• If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Men, Civilization, Years

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• Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Civilization, Defeat, Genocide

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• The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

  Paul Krugman

  Habit, Legitimacy, Deficit

  "Crisis of the Eurocrats" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. May 22, 2014.

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• Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to
  Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all
  peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and
  equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between
  peoples.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Ideas, Justice, Brotherhood

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