Quotes About Political Ideologies

#1. The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.

Tony Campolo

#2. I see Lord Buddha in the 21st Century across national borders, across faith systems, across political ideologies, playing the role of a bridge to promote understanding to counsel patience and to enlighten us with tolerance and empathy.

Narendra Modi

#3. Damn it, if just 5% of people got motivated in some direction, and it doesn't necessarily have to be what I believe in, but if they just got motivated and stopped getting their political ideologies from the mainstream media, they would go out and figure out what they want.

Alex Jones

#4. Political ideologies, too, cannot be defined in terms of assumptions or values, but only as rival versions of the metaphor that SOCIETY IS A FAMILY. The political right likens society to a family commanded by a strict father, the political left to a family cared for by a nurturant parent.

Steven Pinker

#5. Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Susan Sontag

#6. If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century will be the changes wrought by astonishing scientific breakthroughs

Cynthia Tucker

#7. The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Wilhelm Reich

#8. Worldwide, the poor leave a very small carbon footprint, but they will suffer the most from climate change.

Peter Singer

#9. Time would be my friend, I told myself.
Yet time, I knew even then, was my enemy.

Robin Maxwell

#10. If we choose to learn and grow from the things that happen to us, is it even necessary to guess at why they happened? What's a more productive use of our energy - searching for meaning outside ourselves or creating meaning within ourselves?

Lori Deschene

#11. We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry.

Rick Perlstein

#12. Etiquette, Seward had once told Jamison, was all that mattered. Ideologies waxed and waned, religions developed and eroded, political parties rose and fell from power. Only courtesy remained one of the few things valued by all civilized men.

Connie Brockway

#13. Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure.

Jonathan Kozol

#14. Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon ... Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered.

Hannah Arendt

#15. It's hard to reconcile my personal beliefs with an entire institution like the Church or the Republicans. Or with people within those political persuasions who have such different ideologies but confess the same things I confess spiritually.

Sufjan Stevens

#16. Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.

William Langland

#17. Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

B.R. Ambedkar

#18. 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

#19. Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.

Joseph Fink

#20. In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political Islam have been based on the nation state. The nation state is very problematic but I'm not sure if we have an alternative political model.

Tariq Ramadan

#21. The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear as nothing more than the unadorned truth.

Michael Parenti

#22. There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#23. I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self-harm.

Benedict Smith

#24. The three stages of life: youth, middle age, and 'You're looking good, Mr. Keating.

Ann Patchett

#25. A lot of things are going right. More is going right than wrong, for sure.

J. J. Hardy

#26. Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.

Neil Gaiman

#27. The political movements, or ideologies, inspired by Hegel are all united in
the ostensible abandonment of virtue.

Albert Camus

#28. Thank you ... motion sensor hand towel machine. You never work, so I just end up looking like I'm waving hello to a wall robot.

Jimmy Fallon

#29. Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.

Simon Sinek

#30. If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

Phillip E. Johnson

#31. All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#32. The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies.

John Ralston Saul