Ideology Quotes - Page 28

• I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

  Benigno Aquino III

  Role Models, Parent, Mentor

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• It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Political, Architecture, Political Ideology

  "Oscar Niemeyer Talks About Brasilia, Communism, Regrets". Interview with Michael Luongo, www.bloomberg.com. December 7, 2012.

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• To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all.

  Harold Bloom

  Judgment

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

  Jane Jacobs

  Insecure, Promise, Answers

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.115, Vintage

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• Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

  Albert Camus

  Psychology, Humans, Contrary

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.116, Vintage

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• What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

  Michael Pollan

  Campaigns, Unions, Tests

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.37, Penguin

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• For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a prodigious parallel: just as in antiquity the dysdaimonic personality could not appreciate how his mentality was bound in by his characterological (banausic, doulic) biases, so in modernity the facile or abstractivist rationalist cannot comprehend how his "rationality" merely slavishly subserves his appetites, delusions, preconceptions, ideologies, etc.

  Kenny Smith

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Self

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• Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

  Naomi Klein

  Men, Our World, White

  "It's greed, not ideology, that rules the White House" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2003.

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• Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

  Barry Eisler

  Publishing

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• Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.

  Sebastian Junger

  Ideas, Pakistan, Way

  "Journalist Sebastian Junger". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. June 10, 2011.

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• My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.

  Matisyahu

  Music Is

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• Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.

  Khem Veasna

  Support, Political, Campaigns

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• Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Frustration, People

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Evil, Rejection

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• Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.

  Sylvain Tesson

  Dog, Doors, Hermits

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• The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Ideas, Two

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.1075, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.

  Adolf Hitler

  Ideas, World, Demand

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• The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Mean, Unions, May

  Francis Fukuyama, United States Institute of Peace (1990). “A Look at "The end of history?"”, United States Inst of Peace Pr

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• The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.

  Newt Gingrich

  Politics, Want, Facts

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• And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in the war against terror are so anti-liberal that you would think it would be liberals leaping to protect the world from these monstrous ideologies.

  Orson Scott Card

  War, Thinking, Enemy

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• The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Democracy, Ambitious, Arrogant

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• All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

  Barack Obama

  Ideas, Firm

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.17, Canongate Books

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• We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself." Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely "outside myself."

  Carter Heyward

  Community, Movement, Born

  Carter Heyward (1989). “Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God”, Harper San Francisco

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• The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Country, Looks, Height

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Home and the World”, p.70, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

  Nandan Nilekani

  Ideas, Action, Policy

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