Ideology Quotes - Page 35

• Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Bridges, Gaps, Storytelling

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• Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

  John le Carre

  Party, Desert, Disillusionment

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• And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they 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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• People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.

  Nhat Hanh

  Believe, People, Suffering

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.2, Penguin

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• There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.

  Madeleine Albright

  Spring, Reality, Community

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. July 27, 2014.

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• The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and malades imaginaires of politics, premature ejaculators of posthistory and hyperchondriacs of the dead body of ideology and morality.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Running, Reality, Widows

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• Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Real, Self, America

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• Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about a man down in Kentuckywhere they make bourbon. And he said you can take a jigger or two jiggers and get by all right. But if you try to take the whole bottle why you have lost what you started with. So don't try to take it too quick. And don't try to do all of it at once. I don't do much promising. I tell what my goals are and then I try to wrap it up and put a blue ribbon on it and get it delivered. We say put the coonskin on the wall.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wall, Drinking, Character

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• Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Progress, May, Facts

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.5, Verso

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• Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for granted without having ever examined it.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Mean, Burden Of Proof, Granted

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.52, Verso

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• Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of democracy to keep this ideology and this drive under control. Science is here no different from other institutions.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Achievement, Democracy, Different

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or other factors. Therefore, the time has come for us to think on a deeper level, on the human level, and from that level we should appreciate and respect the sameness of others as human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Race, Appreciate

  "The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness". Book edited by Sidney Piburn. "Kindness and Compassion" p. 47, 1990.

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• The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Giving, Mind

  "Bill Clinton talks about common good, challenging GOP". William J. Clinton's speech at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., www.rawstory.com. October 18, 2006.

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• The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Wall, Democracy, Example

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• Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Trying, Facts

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• The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Revolution, Rebellious

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

  Bill Moyers

  Firsts, Monopoly, First Time

  "On Bush, the Dems, Jon Stewart, Hunter Thompson, Bill Moyers, and King (not Don)" by John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2005.

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• In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Real, Ideas, People

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• Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Luxury, Roots

  "Napolitano defends report on right-wing extremist groups". www.cnn.com. April 15, 2009.

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• We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not nor will we ever monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.

  Janet Napolitano

  Responsibility, Rights, People

  "Chorus of Protest Grows Over Report Warning of Right Wing Radicalization". www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2009.

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• For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

  Henri Nouwen

  Country, Jesus, Children

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community”, Edicoes Loyola

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• Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Joy, Faces, Journalism

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.256, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Reality, Years

  "How Capitalism Can Save Art" by Camille Paglia, www.wsj.com. October 05, 2012.

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• Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Community, Political, Paper

  "Why Don't You? Sarah Jessica Parker" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 4, 2009.

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• As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

  Steven Pinker

  Long, Groups, World

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