Ideology Quotes - Page 27

• Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

  Joseph Joubert

  Evil, Abuse, Foundation

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• ...the kingdom of God is that invisible collection of committed Christians that transcends cultures, ideologies... and creeds- all bound by the golden commitment to say nothing and do nothing that would attack the self-esteem, the self-respect, and the dignity of any other human being, whether or not they are committed members of the kingdom of God. The dignity of the person then is the irreducible cell of true Christianity.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Christian, Religious, Self Esteem

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• His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Powerful, Moral Leadership

  Statement on the death of Vaclav Havel, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 18, 2011.

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• To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Practice, Class, Ideas

  Patricia Hill Collins (2000). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.284, Psychology Press

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• Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Fall, Fate

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• It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

  Manuel Puig

  Party, Views, Hands

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• We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.

  Terence McKenna

  Kings, Moon, Journey

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• Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Rich Or Poor, Suffering, Desire

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• Eventually the world will no longer be divided by the ideologies of 'left' and 'right' but by those who accept ecological limits and those who don't.

  Wolfgang Sachs

  Nature, World, Limits

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• Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of dissolution.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Agents, Divinity

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• Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Religious, Compassion

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• Whether we are rich or poor,
  educated or uneducated,
  whatever our nationality, colour,
  social status or ideology may be,
  the purpose of our lives is to be happy

  Dalai Lama

  Rich Or Poor, Purpose, May

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• Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises-War and Shopping-simply will not work.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, War, Simple

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• My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems.

  Mac Miller

  People, Problem, Forget

  "Mac Miller’s Tour Kicks Off As He Talks ‘Watching Movies with the Sound Off,’ Molly, And His Unexpected Success" by Madeline Boardman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2013.

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• If you consider sexual desire and romantic love between men and women to be natural and healthy, you are not a feminist . There is nothing natural about sex, according to feminist ideology, no biological urge that causes women to be attracted to men.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Sex, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face. They are not just a nuisance. As a collective they are dangerous. When men capable of murder receive the affection of engineers and MBAs, it makes them potentially far more lethal.

  Manu Joseph

  Distance, Men, Mba

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• If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

  Brian Baird

  Real, Government, Tough Questions

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• Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.

  Paul Watson

  Conceited, Religion, Apes

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• It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The reason is that the influence of the bourgeoisie and of the intellectuals who come from the old society will remain in our country for a long time to come, and so will their class ideology. If this is not sufficiently understood, or is not understood at all, the gravest mistakes will be made and the necessity of waging the struggle in the ideological field will be ignored.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Mistake, Struggle

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

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• A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.

  Aslan Maskhadov

  Vaccines, Long, Als

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• I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Religious, Medicine, Political

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• Corporations, government entities and media conglomerates-fear the ideology of an animal liberationist could catch hold and topple them from their golden thrones, reducing their animal product profits.

  Charlotte Laws

  Animal, Government, Media

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• Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.

  Regis Debray

  Technology, Understanding, Soul

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• History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.

  F. M. Powicke

  Book, History, Patterns

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• The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages, and against the class 'techniques' for increasing productivity... but also around the question of the technical-social division of labor that prevails om enterprises, and against bourgeois ideology and repression.

  Louis Althusser

  Struggle, Class, Division Of Labor

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