American Quote by Rick Perlstein

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'm way past the idea of using ideology or political view as a gauge of human character. I simply don't believe it. And many…

— James Ellroy

I identify with a different political ideology and therefore that shades the way people view me.

— Daniel Cameron

Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see…

— Toni Morrison

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists…

— L. Neil Smith

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

— Terry Eagleton

No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.

— John Lydon

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

— Diana Trilling

You can define everything as being political and analyze it politically.

— Jim Jarmusch

“The American scene required harmonization of its discordant groups, and responsibility for the task belonged to the practitioners of politics.”

— Robert J. Rayback

Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it.

— John Mackey