Century Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality…

— Vaclav Havel

Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production…

— Slavoj Žižek

Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various…

— Lionel Trilling

I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of…

— Terence McKenna

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

— Louis Althusser

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of…

— Steven Pinker

You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the…

— Douglas Coupland

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the…

— Karl Jaspers

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth,…

— Alexander Schmemann

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

— Terry Eagleton

“ideology signifies a phenomenon intermediate between a simple lie at one pole, and an error, which is the result of a distorted and faulty…

— Karl Mannheim

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

— Dario Fo