ideology quotes

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

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

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

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.

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.

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.

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

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.

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

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

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

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

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 spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

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

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

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

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

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

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

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

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

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

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.