Top 100 Quotes About Ideology
#1. The grievous burden of remorse shouted shame, that a criminally blind ideology could reject the promise of birthright, then mangle the exuberant vigour of life, designed by nature to celebrate only creative abundance.
Janny Wurts
#2. 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
#3. I don't believe in ideology in international relations.
Sergei Lavrov
#4. A greedy insistence that the whole of nature and life must present itself to our voracious demand for instantaneous intelligibility is a symptom of all world-shrinking ideology, whether religiously fundamentalist or scientifically materialist. In
John F. Haught
#5. The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force.
Wafa Sultan
#6. Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle.
James R. Lewis
#7. I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.
Vladimir Putin
#8. Political utopianism1 is tyranny disguised as a desirable, workable, and even paradisiacal governing ideology.
Mark R. Levin
#9. But one day. After ideology comes religion. Those who were our friends will become our enemies.
Joakim Zander
#10. I view music as entertainment. When I'm on stage, I don't look at that as a platform for sharing ideology. Otherwise I'd be a zealot myself. That's why, when people ask me, 'Do you think you can change the world through your music?' I say, 'I doubt it.'
Greg Graffin
#11. We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient.
Dalai Lama
#12. Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.
Joe Slovo
#13. The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope
an ideology of hate
excuse me
with an ideology of hope.
George W. Bush
#14. Ideology is the opposite of philosophy. Philosophy is the curiosity which guides its inquiry according to universal principles. Ideology is a prior prejudice that seeks out an echo-chamber of reaffirming information.
Stefan Molyneux
#15. The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.
Eliot Spitzer
#17. In The Gulag Archipelago, for example, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarks that Shakespeare's evildoers, Macbeth notably among them, stop short at a mere dozen corpses because they have no ideology.
Theodore Dalrymple
#18. The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.
Mark Regev
#19. Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.
Vaclav Havel
#20. They persistently refused to support either armed party and believed that both sides were but the reflection of one reality, and the true enemies were not people, but ideology, hatred, and ignorance.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#21. ...no one who has ever lived through the unmasking of one ideology, taken uncritically as the truth about human life, will be quite as vulnerable to the absolutizing of another.
-Sexuality and Spiritual Growth
Joan H. Timmerman
#22. If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli.
Hassan Nasrallah
#23. We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like ISIS, a barbaric, ruthless, violent jihadist terrorist group.
Hillary Clinton
#24. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey
#25. Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
Simone De Beauvoir
#26. Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.
Joan Robinson
#27. Since all premodern state ideology was inseparable from religion, warfare inevitably acquired a sacral element.
Karen Armstrong
#28. If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.
Friedrich Engels
#29. Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.
Dinesh D'Souza
#30. Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.
Frank Bidart
#31. I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.
Jerry Brown
#32. The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.
Steven Pinker
#33. Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.
Tony Judt
#34. I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.
David Axelrod
#35. The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.
Petr Skrabanek
#36. Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'Rourke
#37. If we cannot justify the very concept of the aesthetic, except as ideology, then aesthetic judgement is without philosophical foundation. An 'ideology' is adopted for its social or political utility, rather than its truth. And
Roger Scruton
#38. Relinquish your ideology of control, for it is merely a mirage anyway.
Sara Secora
#39. Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because ... No matter how pathetic the reason, it's enough to start war. War will never cease to exist ... reasons can be thought up after the fact ... Human nature pursues strife.
Masashi Kishimoto
#41. Third choice was to strike off toward some new projection - a new job, a better (different) relationship, a seductive ideology, or sometimes to drift into some unconscious "self-treatment plan" such as an addiction or an affair.
James Hollis
#42. For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the "riddles of the universe," or the intimate knowledge of the hidden universal laws which are supposed to rule nature and man.
Hannah Arendt
#43. You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.
Peter Coyote
#44. The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul ... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery.
Rajneesh
#45. The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.
John Sununu
#46. What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
Kamala Harris
#47. Anti-Christian ideology has permeated much of the secular news media, and so often Biblical Christians are mocked, misrepresented or attacked for what they believe by anti-Christian agenda driven reporters.
Ken Ham
#48. A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.
William Irwin Thompson
#49. You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#51. Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.
John Leo
#52. am in revolt against the recent fashion of attaching so much weight to political ideology. For the last fifty years, we have paid too much attention to political differences, just as we used to pay too much attention to religious differences.
Helen MacInnes
#53. One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.
Jonah Goldberg
#54. Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#55. Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned.
Massimo Pigliucci
#56. An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.
William C. Brown
#57. Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.
Peter Watts
#58. People are suspect because they believe your ideology blinds you to equal application of the law, and the facts,
Joe Biden
#59. The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.
Joseph Stiglitz
#60. An assault on an ideology is not merely different from a threat made to a person; it is the opposite of a threat made to a person. The whole end of liberal civilization is to substitute the criticism of ideas for assaults on people.
Adam Gopnik
#61. Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.
Nhat Hanh
#62. Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation
Fareed Zakaria
#63. I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.
Callie Khouri
#64. I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.
David Bezmozgis
#65. "The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.
John Zerzan
#66. I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
Maajid Nawaz
#67. It seems people don't read or listen. Our scholars and our media have been very outspoken. We were the first country in the world to hold a national public awareness campaign against extremism and terrorism. Why would we not want to fight an ideology whose objective is to kill us?
Adel Al-Jubeir
#68. Have you ever wondered ... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists ... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power.
Malcolm Gladwell
#69. All the air power in the world was of little use when what they were really fighting was an ideology, not a conventional army. Our
Christina Lamb
#70. 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
#71. Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.
Mason Cooley
#72. ISIL is not the JV team. I cannot stress enough that there's a terrorist army in Syria and Iraq that wants to attack the homeland and we're not doing anything about it. So how do you defeat the ideology? Build up others? You reject Rand Paul.
Rand Paul
#73. I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
Terence McKenna
#74. Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.
A. B. Yehoshua
#75. Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the citizen off his pedestal and replaced him with the consumer.
Larry Siedentop
#76. Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
Naomi Wolf
#77. Faith, doubt, humility, and confidence - this is the stuff and substance of theology at its best. Swagger, smugness, and certainty - this is the stuff and substance of ideology at its worst.
Austin Fischer
#78. Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.
Gerhard Richter
#79. Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.
John R.W. Stott
#81. Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.
Maajid Nawaz
#82. The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause budget deficits to soar. The U.S. dollar, which has become a mere corollary of government finance, is likely to survive the soaring deficits.
Hans F. Sennholz
#83. On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.
Marc Racicot
#86. A dominant ideology represents the view of a dominant group, often by making the existing order seem inevitable. Thus, by depicting motherhood as natural, a patriarchal ideology of mothering locks women into biological reproduction, and denies them identities and selfhood outside mothering.
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
#87. 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
#88. Both oral and written stories are an important aspect of culture. Stories are a ubiquitous component of human communication. People use stories to explain historical events and to illustrate ideology. Stories teach ethical principles through parables.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#89. Hitler emphasized again and again his belief that Nazism was a secular ideology founded on modern science. Science, he declared, would easily destroy the last remaining vestiges of superstition. 'Put a small telescope in a village, and you destroy a world of superstitions.'24
Richard J. Evans
#90. The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia.
Boris Yeltsin
#91. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
Bill Moyers
#92. Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.
George Packer
#93. How many companies have you encountered that articulate a clear ideology at the start of the company, yet cannot articulate a clear idea of what products to make?
James C. Collins
#94. Human believe what they want to believe and individual could believe according to his mind that why human never has any agreement on one ideology.
Zaman Ali
#95. Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism - and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.
Maajid Nawaz
#96. There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."
Matthew Specktor
#97. Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.
Malachy McCourt
#98. Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.
(V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)
John Ralston Saul
#99. Judged by the evolving nineteenth-century ideology of femininity, which emphasized women's roles as nurturing mothers and gentle companions and housekeepers for their husbands, Black women were practically anomalies. Though
Angela Y. Davis
#100. I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong.
Ruben Blades
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