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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -- Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology. -- James Carville
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. -- Christopher Lasch
Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference. -- Mason Cooley
Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door. -- Sylvain Tesson
Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World. -- William Irwin Thompson
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. --
Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view. -- David Brin
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
Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon ... Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered. -- Hannah Arendt
People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom. -- Nancy Pearcey
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. -- Susan Sontag
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
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
A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes. -- William Irwin Thompson
Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied. -- Steven Weber
The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world. -- Penn Badgley
When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else. -- Rajneesh
In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed. -- Alan Dershowitz
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. -- B. R. Ambedkar
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. -- Wilhelm Reich
The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance. -- Chen Shui-bian
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. -- Steven Pinker
If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming. -- Phillip E. Johnson
False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice with bright promises of security, cradle-to-grave guarantees of many kinds. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication. -- Tony Campolo
And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination. -- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free. -- Tariq Ramadan
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
Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies. -- Pope Francis
I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things. -- Gerhard Richter
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies. -- Robinson Jeffers
History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. -- F. M. Powicke
If everything were transparent, there would be no ideologies. -- Fredric Jameson
All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies. -- Mario Bunge
Islam should be compared to other totalitarian ideologies like Communism or Fascism. -- Geert Wilders
Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains. -- U Thant
You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly. -- Peter F. Hamilton
I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies. -- Robert Ludlum
Whatever their ideas or ideologies or religions are, always get along well with people! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies. -- David Foster Wallace
Nazi ideologies continue to the present day behind the veil of supposedly free societies and governments. -- James Morcan
It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one. -- Richard Hofstadter
Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies. -- Jonah Goldberg
There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom. -- Ludwig von Mises
Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. -- Paul Feyerabend
You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now. -- Bashar al-Assad
... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods. -- Robert Musil
To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains. -- Rebecca West
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry. -- Rick Perlstein
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man." -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine. -- Tammy Baldwin
The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies. -- Ivan Illich
We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal. -- Samuel Hopkins Adams
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny. -- Nancy Pearcey
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. -- Abdelaziz Bouteflika
I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies. -- Raymond Loewy
Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances. -- Jane Jacobs
Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies. -- Ace Antonio Hall
In the end, it is conscience that will have the last word, stronger than all strategies, all ideologies and also all religions.... Peace is still possible... -- Roger Etchegaray
We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient. -- Dalai Lama
More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right. -- Jack Schwartz
Eventually the world will no longer be divided by the ideologies of 'left' and 'right' but by those who accept ecological limits and those who don't. -- Wolfgang Sachs
A lot of people believe a lot of things. People also believe in a lot of ideas or hold tight to a lot of ideologies and beliefs. -- Matisyahu
All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual. -- Frank Capra
I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom. -- Gao Xingjian
Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure. -- Jonathan Kozol
It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would definitely and gladly erase the concept of feminism. -- Laura Mulvey
When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings. -- Aberjhani
I suppose I've become less judgmental about individuals leading lives according to false ideas and false consciousness, because sometimes entire societies are prey to false ideologies and national delusions. -- Pankaj Mishra
Something mystical can happen in the course of acting together that transcends words and ideologies--people who do not agree on ideas can create common ground in the act of loving. -- Shane Claiborne
The rival ideologies of the left and right are both pining for the 50s. The only difference is that liberals want to work there, while conservatives want to go home there. -- Brink Lindsey
The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear as nothing more than the unadorned truth. -- Michael Parenti
It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent. -- Alexander Schmemann
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 Adorno
We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies that are going to come their way. -- Jim Rohn
The glut of information that is spayed at us on a daily basis is an important factor in the formation of our ideologies, and it's not even actually happening in front of us. -- Andrew Neel
If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century will be the changes wrought by astonishing scientific breakthroughs -- Cynthia Tucker
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium. -- Abdelaziz Bouteflika
The imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good. -- Pope Francis
Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that 'primitive' Christians were quite in the spirit of Pagan forms and ideologies. -- Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them." -- B. R. Ambedkar
These anti-public intellectuals are part of a disimagination machine that solidifies the power of the rich and the structures of the military-industrial-surveillance-academic complex by presenting the ideologies, institutions and relations of the powerful as commonsense. -- Henry Giroux

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