Political Ideology Quotes

• True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

  Monica Crowley

  Mean, Race, Ethnicity

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• I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

  Callie Khouri

  Thinking, Political, Feminism

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• Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

  E. O. Wilson

  Political, Mind, Ideology

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• True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Freedom, People

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

  Andrew Sullivan

  Political, Religion, Ideology

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• The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Democracy, United States

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Political, Architecture, Ideology

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

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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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• Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.

  Bob Geldof

  Political, President, Done

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• The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

  Lindsey Graham

  Umpires, Judging, Political

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• We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  African American, Baptists, Socialism

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• Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Funny, Witty, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool. Democratic politicians must appeal to these masses in order to be elected. Whoever is the best demagogue will win. Almost by necessity, then, democracy will lead to the perversion of truth, justice and beauty.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

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• Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tyrants, Libertarian Party, Thought Provoking

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.

  Aldous Huxley

  Powerful, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

  Fredric Jameson

  Political, World, Imagine

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• Fascism is capitalism in decay.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Decay, Politics

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• It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Change, Years, Editors

  Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminati Papers”, p.111, Ronin Publishing

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• It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Freedom, Power, Government

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.217, Soft Skull Press

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• You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Fall, Acceptance, Fighting

  "They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by Paul F. Boller and John H. George, 1990.

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  Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

  John Steinbeck

  Roots, America, Usa

  Attributed in "A Short History of Progress" by Ronald Wright, Toronto: Anansi Press, (pp. 124), 2004.

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• Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.

  James Carville

  Truth, Smart, Believe

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• Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Military

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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• A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Real, Thinking, Political

  Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.56, Penguin

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• The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

  Norman Thomas

  Freedom, Names, Usa

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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