Conditions Quote by Louis Althusser

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

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

— Henry Giroux

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

— Louis Althusser

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

— Terry Eagleton

“An ideology is a conceptual framework, the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have one. To exist, you need an ideology."…

— Kathryn Schulz

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

“This is what an ideology is – the application of a set of rules, principles, and perspectives to the issues of the day. The…

— Hans Noel

For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to…

— Slavoj Žižek

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

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

— Dario Fo

What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you…

— Alan Greenspan