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

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

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.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

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

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.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

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.

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

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

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

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

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.

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.

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

I supported Donald Trump.

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

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

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

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.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

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

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.

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.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

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

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

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 still think like a Marxist in many ways.

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

You have your ideology and I have mine.

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

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

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.

All great peoples are conservative.

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.

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

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

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

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

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.

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