Challenges Quote by Bernard Crick

“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of…

— Hannah Arendt

“One problem for the analyst of ideologies is that many holders of ideology, especially but not solely conservatives, have denied that they are ideological.…

— Michael Freeden

I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or wrong, or…

— John O. Brennan

Any clear-thinking person should be able to engage in nuanced thinking when it comes to complex political positions.

— Gad Saad

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Hannah Arendt

Totalitarian regimes produce a culture and a moral code that is totally different from what happens in a democracy. There are two moral categories…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.

— Raymond Geuss

Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the…

— Giorgio Agamben

The Left doesn't realize that unless you create a formative culture and a critical consciousness capable of changing the way people think about the…

— Henry Giroux

The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists…

— L. Neil Smith

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and…

— Hannah Arendt