facts never disconfirm a good ideology

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I’m not surprise to hear this from you. People love to express their thought and ideas. They preach everyone to believe and follow their…

— Rin Ahmad

I think neoliberalism is vulnerable to protest. And it's under protest because people are beginning to realize that these austerity policies are really market-driven…

— Henry Giroux

Neoliberalism became the leading economic ideology in the U.S. and in the U.K. during Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's mandates. In this way, the…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

“[W]hat counts as ‘realistic’, what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political determinations. An ideological…

— Mark Fisher

“Part of what academics do is generate ideas and teach. The other, perhaps more important part, is to play the role of “the Bu*l*hit…

— Mark Blyth

“...the centrality of competitiveness as the key to growth is a recurrent EU motif. Two decades of EC directives on increasing competition in every…

— Mark Blyth

“Wholes subscend their parts, which means that parts are not just mechanical components of wholes, and that there can be genuine surprise and novelty…

— Timothy Morton

Clinton provided the final transition between decaying old-style liberalism and the new neoliberalism and neoconservatism - which are kind of incestuous first cousins. That…

— Jeffrey St. Clair

“The pressures of the current neoliberal capitalist system of health care and its financing force health professionals into a double bind. Either they spend…

— Seth Holmes

“At their most eloquent, proponents of neoliberalism sound as if they are doing poor people, the environment, and everybody else a tremendous service as…

— Noam Chomsky

“Arnold Harberger, Milton Friedman & Co. Inc., your modest proposal of partial equilibrium for the general good is not without its own internal contradictions.…

— André Gunder Frank

Today's neoliberalism has a number of byproducts. We have massive forms of inequality developing because there are no longer any concessions. There's a war…

— Henry Giroux

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.

— David Harvey