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

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.

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.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

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

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

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.

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 first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

You could tell ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

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

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

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.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

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.

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.

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

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

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

People that’s in power – the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally – they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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

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

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.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

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

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

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

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

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

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.

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

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

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