Ideology Quotes

• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Cancer

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970

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

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Religious

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.6, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you

  Morris Berman

  Ideas

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• Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Inspiring, Dream, Teacher

  "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book by Sy Safransky, 1990.

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• With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters.

  Dalai Lama

  Relationship, Sister, Wise

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• A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Real, Thinking, Political

  Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.56, Penguin

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• You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea.
  You can kill a man, but not an idea.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

  Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Change, Hippie, Liberty

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

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• Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

  Mason Cooley

  Passion, Deeds, Explanation

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• There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

  Jiang Qing

  Love, Peace, Coexist

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• If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond words and actions, and attains to the ultimate Truth only in silence and Love.

  Thomas Merton

  Religious, Silence, And Love

  Thomas Merton, Robert Inchausti (2007). “Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

  Alexander Herzen

  Goal, Atheism, Insane

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• Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

  John le Carre

  Heart, Angel, Self

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  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Freedom, Independent

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tyrants, Libertarian Party, Thought Provoking

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Change, Years, Editors

  Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminati Papers”, p.111, Ronin Publishing

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• You have your ideology and I have mine.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mines

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• In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

  Louis Althusser

  Philosophy, War, Battle

  Louis Althusser, Gregory Elliott (1990). “Philosophy and the spontaneous philosophy of the scientists & other essays”, Verso Books

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• In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.

  Louis Althusser

  Littles, Consciousness, Unconscious

  "For Marx".

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• Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.

  James Carville

  Truth, Smart, Believe

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• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Squirrels, Earth Day

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• Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Art, Spring, Different

  Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

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• True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

  Monica Crowley

  Mean, Race, Ethnicity

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• The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Distance, Ingredients, Minimum

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Change, Ideas, Society

  Patricia Hill Collins (2002). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.7, Routledge

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