Democracy Quote by Frank Capra

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost -…

— Frank Capra

Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology…

— Michael Pollan

The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear…

— Michael Parenti

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

— John le Carre

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

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

— Gene Sharp

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

— Harold H. Greene

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and…

— Stephen Vizinczey

“So the problem with any dictatorship,” I said, following Simone’s argument, “is never really the dictator himself but the people who agree with him.”…

— Camille Bordas

Exaggeration of the national values is the character of dictators.

— Ilkin Santak

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

— Benazir Bhutto

It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.

— Richard Hofstadter