Ideology Quotes

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

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

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.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

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.

Great ideology creates great times.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It's all about business.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

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

You have your ideology and I have mine.