Ideology Quotes

• 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
  • Balance
  • Stupid
  • Electorate

• There is only one Islam, and that is a totalitarian ideology that has no room for anything but Islam.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Islam
  • Rooms
  • Ideology

• The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

  

  Karl Mannheim
  • Evidence
  • Atheism
  • Historical

• I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Embrace
  • Ideology
  • Point Of View

• Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

  

  Reza Aslan
  • People
  • Ideology
  • Bigots

• Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Literature
  • Ideology
  • Recognizes

• The dominance of an ideology is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the forms of dominant political discourse: this means that often they live even their revolt against domination of the system within the frame of reference of the dominant legitimacy.

  

  Nicos Poulantzas
  • Political
  • Ideology
  • Classes

• An ideology that divides the world into those who are worth more and those who are worth less, into superior and inferior beings, does not have to reach the dimensions of the German genocide to be wrong.

  

  Amira Hass
  • World
  • Ideology
  • Divides

• You photograph with all your ideology.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Photograph
  • Ideology

• Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Culture
  • Democracy
  • Islam

• Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated and grouped under a National Department of Education and its state and local branches. The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of bourgeois ideology.

  

  William Z. Foster
  • School
  • College
  • Religious

• 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
  • Interest
  • Differences
  • Dialogue

• I am convinced most Americans - yes even white Americans - are committed to justice and equality for all people. I am convinced that most Americans are disgusted and even ashamed that Nazism is alive and well in this country that fought to defeat its evil ideology.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Justice
  • Americans
  • Nazism

• There's a lot of ideology about "free", that we can have free services, free content, it's one of the reasons why the music industry which I defend has been decimated.

  

  Andrew Keen
  • Ideology
  • Music Industry
  • Decimated

• Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations within which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists, after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Politics
  • Relation
  • Blindness

• When our party had only seven men, it already had two principles. First, it wanted to be a party with a true ideology. And second, it wanted to be the one and only power in Germany.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Principles
  • Germany
  • Ideology

• The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Problem
  • Ideology
  • Art Model

• Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Ideology
  • Atrocities

• The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

  

  Sigmar Gabriel
  • Democracy
  • Example
  • Wall Street

• Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Damage
  • Cure
  • Conservatism

• What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Mistake

• Change does not come on thoughts alone; because we have a revolutionary ideology and give speeches on it. It comes because you can change the material conditions of people, and get people to assist in the change, be the mainstay in the change in their conditions.

  

  Chokwe Lumumba
  • Speech
  • Conditions
  • Materials

• All of them are from personal experience – or my opinions about life and/or ideology.

  

  Ryan Shuck
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Ideology

• It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Important
  • Subjects
  • Critique

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