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• Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.

  Chris Matthews

  Empty Vessels, Scary, Palin

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• Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept our infertility treatments as consolation prize. Our jobs are supposed to be our highest priority. We are expected to overlook the connection between our disappointment, the impossible ideology of equality, and the contraception that makes that ideology appear to be possible.

  Jennifer Morse

  Jobs, Disappointment, Accomplishment

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• Teachings and ideologies subversive to the fundamental principles of this great Republic, which are contrary to the Constitution of the United States, or which are detrimental to the progress of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will be condemned, whether advocated by Republicans or Democrats.

  David O. McKay

  Jesus, Teaching, Progress

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• Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Want, Progressive, Ideologues

  Jonah Goldberg (2012). “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas”, p.24, Penguin

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• President Obama is like a lost man who refuses to ask for directions. That's because he has never worked in the real world with people who create real jobs. He operates on theories and an ideology that is incapable of achieving his goals.

  Cal Thomas

  Jobs, Real, Men

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• Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.

  George Gilder

  Racism, People, Erode

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.177, Regnery Publishing

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• Whether as a radical student, a community organizer or a far left politician, Barack Obama's ideology has been based on a vision of the Haves versus the Have Nots. . .Obama's ideology is an ideology of envy, resentment, and payback.

  Thomas Sowell

  Envy, Community, Vision

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• Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more than they do. It is difficult to ascertain their motives; it can be simple envy which consumes many men, or it can be economic ignorance.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Ignorance, Successful, Simple

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• What can prevent the coming of totalitarian socialism is only a thorough change in ideologies. What we need is an open positive endorsement of that system to which we owe all the wealth that distinguished our age from the conditions of ages gone by.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Age, Needs, Gone

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• Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind. You see it a lot with T.V. preachers (many have minds made of cabbage) but it can also happen with political ideology. When you're young it's easy to drift into loyalties and when you announce that you're a loyal member and you start shouting the orthodox ideology out, what you're doing is pounding it in, pounding it in, and you're gradually ruining your mind. So you want to be very, very careful of this ideology. It's a big danger.

  Charlie Munger

  Loyalty, Thinking, Political

  USC Law Commencement Speech, genius.com. May 1, 2007.

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• I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and that is: I say that I'm not entitled to have an opinion on this subject unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who support it. I think only when I've reached that state am I qualified to speak. This business of not drifting into extreme ideology is a very, very important thing in life

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Things In Life, Iron

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• Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional involvement with anything - with issues, ideology, a woman, even a family - can be a handicap, not only consuming valuable time, but more importantly, reducing flexibility and the capacity for detached calculation needed to take maximum advantage of continually changing circumstances.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Emotional, Issues, Alliances

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (2015). “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• But the 20th century suffered "two" ideologies that led to genocides. The other one, Marxism, had no use for race, didn't believe in genes and denied that human nature was a meaningful concept. Clearly, it's not an emphasis on genes or evolution that is dangerous. It's the desire to remake humanity by coercive means (eugenics or social engineering) and the belief that humanity advances through a struggle in which superior groups (race or classes) triumph over inferior ones.

  Steven Pinker

  Meaningful, Struggle, Believe

  "Q&A: Steven Pinker of 'Blank Slate'". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. October 30, 2002.

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• The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.

  William J. Clinton

  Giving, Answers, Problem

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• The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause budget deficits to soar. The U.S. dollar, which has become a mere corollary of government finance, is likely to survive the soaring deficits.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Spring, Government, Dollars

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• Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.

  Rich Lowry

  Suicide, Logic, Multiculturalism

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• Those who create the wealth naturally want to keep it and devote it to their own purposes. Those who wish to expropriate it look for ever more-clever ways to acquire it without inciting resistance. One of those ways is the spreading of an elaborate ideology of statism, which teaches that the people are the state and that therefore they are only paying themselves when they pay taxes.

  Sheldon Richman

  Clever, People, Wish

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• The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.'

  Thomas Sowell

  New York, Reality, Long

  Thomas Sowell (2010). “Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays”, p.266, Basic Books

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• The truth is the committed left press in America is not longer interest in reporting the news. Anything that hinders a favorable view of the far left will be ignored; anything that advances liberal causes will be celebrated. News reporting today is largely about ideology and shaping the culture, not about informing the public.

  Bill O'Reilly

  America, Views, Today

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• Government provided free tuition tends more and more to produce a uniform conformist education, with college faculties ultimately dependent for their jobs on the government, and so developing an economic interest in profession and teaching a statist, pro-government, and socialist ideology.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Jobs, Teaching, College

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• No one can escape the influence of a prevailing ideology.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Influence, Prevailing

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.210, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Culture, Ugly

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• When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Degradation, Corruption, Spirals

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• Science is much closer to myth than a scientific philosophy is prepared to admit. It is one of the many forms of thought that have been developed by man, and not necessarily the best. It is conspicuous, noisy, and impudent, but it is inherently superior only for those who have already decided in favour of a certain ideology, or who have accepted it without ever having examined its advantages and its limits.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Philosophy, Men, Limits

  Paul Feyerabend (1982). “Against method: Outline of anarchistic theory of knowledge”

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• A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Names, Evil

  Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, delivered 24 September 2015, Washington, D.C.

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