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

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 personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

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

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.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

I supported Donald Trump.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

I don’t think the U.S. military is conservative. It’s pragmatic.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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

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

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.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

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

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

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

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

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.

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

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

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

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

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.

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.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

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.

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

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

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

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.

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.

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

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he’s very funny and very smart.

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

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

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

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.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

When you’re a pop star, it’s a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

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.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

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.

There’s no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there’s been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I’ve always believed in the separation of church and state.

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

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against 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.