Emotion Quote by Joe Bageant

Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible…

— Hannah Arendt

The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is -…

— Larry Laudan

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

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

— Honore de Balzac

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

“The world over, the rhetoric of modern democratic politics has been marked by two rather opposed rhetorical styles. The first appeals to hope, to…

— Ramachandra Guha

The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one,…

— Dave Hickey

Possibly the defining development of postmodern politics - naturally, an American one - is the separation of personality from ideology. If you are likeable,…

— Michael Wolff

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

— Paul Wellstone

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

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

— Pierre Bourdieu