Backbone Quote by Owen Jones Download Open image “Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.” — Owen Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backbone Ideological
I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive. — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
“The desire to demonize others is based on the ontological uncertainties.” — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind. — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Demonization of people on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, or other criteria leads to dehumanization. The notion that some are 'other' is… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
In criticizing an ideology, one cannot be racist, hateful, or bigoted. These descriptors apply to positions held against people and not ideologies. — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
When you have demonization of a group of people, it's easy to clump them all together and not understand them. — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
We live in a country where there is a lot of animosity. If your politics is radical it antagonises. People might think I am… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future. — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
From a very young age, boys are taught that real men get into fights, say demeaning things about girls and women, show extraordinary athletic… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The vast majority of people back higher taxes on the rich. Yet these are fringe ideas within most of the mainstream media, which marginalises… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
David Cameron set impossible targets and relentlessly portrayed immigration as a social burden while pursuing an economic strategy that suppressed wages. It did not… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement. — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
If you've never lived outside London, and if you've always had a car, it's difficult to understand how dire bus services undermine your standard… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
If only Brexit would go away. It sucks the political oxygen away from the issues we should all be discussing: like low wages, insecure… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
We recognise that, like us, other humans have insecurities and ambitions; we fall in love and have relationships that end in heartbreak; we worry… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Truth of life is that in difficult times, my family was my backbone. — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone - even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
General Petraeus is a man that has the backbone that somebody like President-elect Trump would love. — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency… — Saxby Chambliss Copy Share Image
If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image