Ideology Quotes · Page 12

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

— Steven Pinker

Primary voters can get confused between candidates whose ideology is very similar, so they look to the party elders.

— Harry Enten

I'm not fond of ideologies. I don't like it when people have answers before they know the question.

— Peter Moskos

In criticizing an ideology, one cannot be racist, hateful, or bigoted. These descriptors apply to positions held against people and not ideologies.

— Gad Saad

“What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods and vermin is ideology.”

— Terry Eagleton

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

— Christopher Lasch

In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it…

— George W. Bush

This flirtation with isolationism in the Republican party is over. It's giving way to a more muscular foreign policy than I've been…

— Rand Paul

In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies…

— Tariq Ramadan

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed…

— Anonymous

“For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and…

— Murray N. Rothbard

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down…

— Peter Watts

“Colonialism was also justified by an elaborate ideology, embodied in everything from Kipling’s poetry and Stanley’s lectures to sermons and books about…

— Adam Hochschild

I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the…

— Alan Dershowitz

What this ideology, what this myth about savagery did was really excuse America for the disappearance of the Indian. It wasn't our…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those…

— Michelle Alexander

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for…

— Parker J. Palmer

“We have to understand that medicine is not simply a science. It's much more than that. It's also an ideology. It's a…

— Gabor Maté

If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is…

— Benito Mussolini

Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these twelve men…

— Barack Obama

All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I…

— Stefan Zweig

Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for…

— Hal Crowther

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

— Anatoly Chubais

Eventually the world will no longer be divided by the ideologies of 'left' and 'right' but by those who accept ecological limits…

— Wolfgang Sachs

Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

— John Lewis Gaddis

It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.

— Paul Watzlawick

“Ideology is masturbation, a jerk-off afforded to those few privileged with time on their hands and no wolves at the door.”

— Rick Remender

A political party is about an ideology. And I don't think my goals in politics can match the ideology of any political…

— Kamal Haasan

Just as we won the Cold War in part by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so,…

— Donald Trump

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves thinking people respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned…

— Thomas Sowell

The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

— Ralph Bunche

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

— Reza Aslan

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

— Malachy McCourt

Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.

— Ted Cruz

“The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.”

— Hannah Arendt

There is only one Islam, and that is a totalitarian ideology that has no room for anything but Islam.

— Geert Wilders

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a…

— William Irwin Thompson

The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding…

— Eric Liu