Books Quote by Wole Soyinka

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

— Jonah Goldberg

“Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.”

— Robert Musil

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

— Guo Moruo

Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium.…

— Xiaolu Guo

I was never ideological in any sense, or a slave to any particular politics or religion. My solace and my inspiration always came from…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

“...literature gives you ideas to think with. It stocks your mind. It does not indoctrinate, because diversity, counter-argument, reappraisal and qualification are its essence.…

— John Carey

It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

— Terry Eagleton

“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

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

“Ideology is the arrogance of the finite subject who speaks as if he were the ultimate legislator, as if she had been appointed the…

— Wlad Godzich

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