"Ideology is the science of idiots." — John Adams

"Ideology is the science of idiots."

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128 Quotes by John Adams

John Adams has 128 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to…
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any…
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot…
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did…
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man…
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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More Ideology Quotes

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. — Karl Barth
Life has become the ideology of its own absence. — Theodor Adorno
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as… — Theodor Adorno
If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. — Theodor Adorno
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The… — Tony Blair
I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want… — Andrea Bocelli
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology… — Hal Borland
President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology.… — John O. Brennan
The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and… — Tony Campolo
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in… — Albert Camus

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