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The press is our chief ideological weapon. -- Nikita Khrushchev
Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness. -- Judith Martin
There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts. -- Jiang Qing
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. -- Pierre Bourdieu
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society. -- Andrei Sakharov
We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts. -- Tavis Smiley
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy. -- Juan Williams
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide. -- Elena Kagan
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision. -- Thomas Sowell
Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases. -- Vladimir Lenin
Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges. -- Chuck Schumer
Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges. -- Chuck Schumer
Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it. -- Hannah Arendt
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. -- Noam Chomsky
Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor. -- Rita Dove
In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have. -- Noah Feldman
There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family. -- Pope Francis
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it. -- Ani DiFranco
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. -- Theodor Adorno
Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities. -- Rand Paul
Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies. -- Evo Morales
With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high. -- Thomas E. Mann
There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating. -- George Wald
There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating. -- George Wald
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media. -- Noam Chomsky
For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable. -- Edgar Ramirez
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media. -- Noam Chomsky
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression. -- Paulo Freire
No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established. -- Kim Jong Il
Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing. -- Edward Said
Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?' -- Noam Chomsky
The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe, -- Mike Lofgren
The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could -- or should -- be the property of the state. -- Christopher Hitchens
Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.' -- Mara Liasson
You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you can almost never prove something to someone who has financial or ideological reasons to not see it proven. -- Derrick Jensen
The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture. -- John Fiske
I have a problem with Mitt Romney. And it's big problem - one that extends beyond our ideological differences. My big concern is that Mitt Romney wants to become president for no other reason than because there's a possibility he can win. -- Jennifer Granholm
The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites. -- Evgeny Morozov
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. -- Jose Saramago
And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God. -- Karen Armstrong
Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media. -- Ivan Krastev
We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that need to be eradicated. For the ideological mentors of Breivik, a similar disturbance comes from the burqa, which is banned in France and Belgium, partly thanks to their efforts. -- Mustafa Akyol
The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy in our nation. So the public can't really get into this dialogue because they don't understand the complexity of stem cells, not the faith-based approach, not the ideological or political, but the science behind stem cells. -- Richard Carmona
As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself. -- Alexander Haig
Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act. It is mindboggling that we are that weak as a society. -- Rocco Galati
I don't think Donald Trump is ideological. -- Barack Obama
Advertisers are very wary of ideological media. -- Paul Weyrich
Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society. -- Owen Jones
The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological. -- Roy DeCarava
Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family. -- Nandan Nilekani
It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented. -- Don Lemon
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals. -- Harry Hay
I'm not a particularly ideological person. There's things, some values I feel passionately about. -- Barack Obama
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age. -- Saul Bellow
An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias -- Jon Meacham
Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation. -- George W. Romney
One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae. -- Daniel Bell
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial. -- John Carroll
I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense. -- Hermann Goring
To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality. -- Don Feder
There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives. -- Cornel West
A continuum links peaceful law-abiding ideological Muslims at one end and murderous jihadists at the other. -- Melanie Phillips
Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter. -- Norman Ornstein
We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are. -- David Bezmozgis
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. -- Bill McKibben
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization. -- Lilia Shevtsova
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society? -- Bill Nye
You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature. -- Omar Bongo
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. -- Carlos Fuentes
They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis. -- Tabare Vazquez
Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset. -- Maajid Nawaz
the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst. -- Patricia J. Williams
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces. -- Dan Rather
The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning. -- Mustafa Akyol
The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting. -- Nick Clooney
In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform. -- John Ralston Saul
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. -- David Korten
If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way. -- John Kasich
Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits. -- David Horowitz
[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact. -- James Nachtwey
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. -- Thomas Sowell
The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective. -- Jonah Goldberg
An ideological certification to make sure that those we are admitting to our country share our values and love our people. -- Donald Trump
The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat. -- Samora Machel
The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext. -- Pope Francis
Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises. -- Ivan Krastev
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking. -- Bernard Crick
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
If George Bush can't get along with Stephen Harper, he can't get along with any world leader. They're ideological cousins, if not twins. -- David Taras
We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam. -- Ibn Warraq
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile. -- Juan Goytisolo
This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons. -- Bill Moyers
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties. -- Thomas E. Mann
A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving. -- David Harsanyi
I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that. -- Mary Harron
My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical, ideological. -- Chris Abani
The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art. -- Harold Rosenberg
One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential. -- Raymond Geuss
Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together. -- Bella Abzug
Exhilarating. Radical Grace moved me to tears with its portrayal of good people putting their beliefs into action in ways that transcend all ideological boundaries. -- Roger Ebert
In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair. -- Robert Harris
Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them. -- Ivan Krastev
The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao. -- Steve Forbes
Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of the ideological system. -- Noam Chomsky
The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma. -- Jose Serrano
Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done. -- John F. Kerry
We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have real competition. -- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization. -- Earl Browder
A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought -- Roy Hattersley
Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological. -- Ma Ying-jeou
It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging to the enemy species are human. -- Louis J. Halle
At its most basic, the allure of fundamentalism, whether religious or ideological, liberal or conservative, is that it provides an appealing order to things that are actually disorderly. -- Peter Mountford

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