Ideology Quote by Nicolás Gómez Dávila Download Open image ““I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.”” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ideology Modernity Philosophy
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“I believe, in life, there is no such thing as a bad idea. Only ideas that work and ideas that do not.” — Mandy Baggot Copy Share Image
“Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know and more will come back to you.” — Paul Arden Copy Share Image
“Nothing desiccates a mind so much as its repugnance to conceive obscure ideas.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“It is so often the small things overlooked which leave our schemes in ruins.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“There is no need to hold on to what's obsolete: One never loses what one tosses away deliberately.” — Dinah Sanders Copy Share Image
“I have wonderful ideas. And terrible ideas. And terribly wonderful ideas.” — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“Some old and unrealized ideas will undoubtedly be actualized when their time comes.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“The liberation promised by every invention ends with the growing submission of the man who adopts it to the man who manufactures it.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official;… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“The most ominous of modern perversions is the shame of appearing naïve if we do not flirt with evil. (La más ominosa de las… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties.” — Nicólas Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of democracy to… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
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Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The Congress may have made mistakes, but their ideology is not wrong. — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians… — Walid Jumblatt Copy Share Image
“What makes today’s popular atheism so depressing is neither its conceptual boorishness nor its self-righteousness but simply its cultural inevitability. It is the final,… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image