Top 46 Ideology Quotes

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Ideology is a system of ideas that form the basis for political and economic policy. With that in mind, check out the top 46 ideology quotes.

#46 – 40. Ideology Quotes

46. You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don’t you use them in the search for love? – Lech Walesa

45. 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

44. People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can’t pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free. – Hubert Humphrey

43. 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

42. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

41. 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

40. 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

#39 – 30. Ideology Quotes

39. I’m not fond of ideologies. I don’t like it when people have answers before they know the question. – Peter Moskos

38. The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe… the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

37. The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes. – Lindsey Graham

36. Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! – Dr. Seuss

35. There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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

33. I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on. – David Bowie

32. The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. – Hannah Arendt

31. History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. – Walter Bagehot

30. To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators. – Lewis H. Lapham

#29 – 20. Ideology Quotes

29. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey

28. Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist! – Carl Gustav Jung

27. I think the rock’n’roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. – Robert Smith

26. We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. – Jerome K. Jerome

25. 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

24. 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

23. Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent. – B. C. Forbes

22. Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other’s nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed. – Rebecca West

21. Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. – William Ewart Gladstone

20. 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

#19 – 10. Ideology Quotes

19. Don’t try to tear down other people’s religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it’s glories. – Brigham Young

18. 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

17. True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity – or political ideology. – Monica Crowley

16. You in the West have a problem. You are unsure when you are being lied to, when you are being tricked. We do not suffer from this; and unlike you, we have acquired the skill of reading between the lines. – Zdenek Urbanak

15. Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. – Eric Hoffer

14. If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed. – Richard A. Nelson

13. Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. – Sigmund Freud

12. There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts. – Jiang Qing

11. We need to stop this New World Order ideology now. First, by being educated and informed about it. – James Dye

10. Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it’s empirically so. – Bob Geldof

#9 – 1. Ideology Quotes

9. Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outside itself. In other words, it is a sign. Without signs there is no ideology. – V. N. Volosinov

8. 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

7. Ideologies have no heart of their own. They’re the whores and angels of our striving selves. – John Le Carre

6. Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. – Albert Camus

5. In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible. – Louis Althusser

4. 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

3. Those who are purporting this one-world government ideology seek to achieve the pinnacle of power like so many that came before them did. And yes, they are the wolves afflicting the human race with death. They are like a cancer. – James Dye

2. Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. – Eugene Ionesco

1. Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. – Albert Camus

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