Ideology Quotes · Page 23

People are dumb and they think that laughing equals cosigning a belief in the ideology, which it doesn't.

— Jim Norton

Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.

— David Brin

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

— Nadine Gordimer

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party…

— Harold Ford, Jr

The global jihad movement ideology is a destructive religious cult. It is so un-Islamic that it is virtually anti-Islamic.

— Malcolm Nance

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

— Nancy Pearcey

Historically, religion has often proved a more lethal and more divisive force than any secular ideology. It has also often been a…

— Linda Colley

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it…

— Azar Nafisi

The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology…

— Wafa Sultan

An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have…

— James Burnham

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women…

— Salman Rushdie

Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science…

— George M. Whitesides

A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued…

— S. E. Cupp

The worst crimes against humanity in the last half of the previous century and this century are carried out with conventional advanced…

— Ilan Pappe

Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing…

— Michelle Rhee

“Uncouth, clannish, lumbering about the confines of Space and Time with a puzzled expression on his face and a handful of things…

— M. John Harrison

Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent ISIL attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble…

— Barack Obama

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave…

— Isabel Allende

The best attitude to receive the Pope's teachings is to understand that he is a religious leader and the essence of his…

— Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo

A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while…

— Pope Francis

Ideology to me is fundamentally is an elite pursuit. I mean most people are just not all that interested in single payer…

— Lydia Polgreen

My entire life was dedicated to defeating communism. I felt really great when Ronald Reagan helped us establish peace and the elimination…

— Dana Rohrabacher

While Donald Trump doesn't have any systematic ideology, he does have a narrative, and in that narrative, America was once a great…

— Robert Jay Lifton

What's important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It's very reflective of my ideology.

— Mitski

“Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.”

— Robert Musil

“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses…

— Slavoj Žižek

Granted, terrorism is a real problem everywhere. But you can't prevent it. Terrorists are nutcases who are hellbent on killing people for…

— John Dean

What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts.

— Thomas Sowell

The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.

— Slavoj Žižek

Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for…

— Barack Obama

The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society…

— Terry Eagleton

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until…

— Malala Yousafzai

In the end, it is conscience that will have the last word, stronger than all strategies, all ideologies and also all religions……

— Roger Etchegaray

The ruling ideology prefers to talk about individual ethics rather than the capitalist system.

— Mark Fisher

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

— Steven Pinker

Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA.

— Robert Wright

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

— Ludwig von Mises

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles…

— Jonah Goldberg

I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die…

— Andrea Bocelli