Ideological Quotes · Page 2

“Books are where the ideas come from, though the ideas need to be simplified, reduced, submitted to ideological purification." ("Notes on the…

— Mark Edmundson

The post-Reagan era has been defined by overspending as the result of ideological overpromises.

— Anthony Scaramucci

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

— Bernard Crick

Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

— James Nachtwey

“the Internet is also giving rise to “filter bubbles” that decrease users’ exposure to conflicting viewpoints and reinforce their own ideological frames.”

— Ted Koppel

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

— Pierre Bourdieu

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

— Jonah Goldberg

When the 2010 election swept Republicans into office in a massive tidal wave, they were part of a philosophical and ideological change.…

— Rick Wilson

“embedded in every tool is an ideological bias, a predisposition to construct the world as one thing rather than another, to value…

— Neil Postman

I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of…

— Paulo Freire

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and…

— Renzo Piano

The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons.…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's…

— Jesse Jackson

When Bill Clinton chose Al Gore in 1992 - from the same generational, ideological, and geographical background as his - it underscored…

— Jeff Greenfield

We need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics…

— Henry Giroux

“It seems that no one wants to be "ideological" anymore, and that includes being straight edge. On the one hand, you can…

— Jonathan Pollack

The left have taken a really beautiful thing, male-female relationships, and turned them into a battle, a political battle, an ideological war.…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Germans, for example, have some kind of compromise between single-member and broader districts. In Israel, you have nothing, you have only…

— Kenneth Arrow

“An ideological movement is a collection of people many of whom could hardly bake a cake, fix a car, sustain a friendship…

— Kenneth Minogue

No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation…

— Anonymous

Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of Germanism, in so far as this is grounded in its genesis…

— Adolf Hitler

It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free…

— Naomi Klein

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

— Carlos Fuentes

I always had overlapping social circles with different ideological groups and different activist groups.

— Mary Katharine Ham

Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know…

— John F. Kerry

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

— Harry Hay

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.

— Slavoj Žižek

I think there's always merit in getting out of our ideological silos and being exposed to points of view with which we…

— Bret Stephens

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it…

— George Wald

Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw…

— Bella Abzug

Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means…

— Ivan Krastev

In authoritarian societies, cultural institutions tend to become ideological proxies - think of the National Ballet in Cuba or the East German…

— Jacob Weisberg

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

— Bill McKibben

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

— Jiang Qing

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

— Bill Nye

Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of…

— Noam Chomsky

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.

— Noah Feldman