Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

‚1984‘ is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

However, there’s no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

I’m conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

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

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.