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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. -- Hannah Arendt
Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious. -- Louis Althusser
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology. -- Monica Crowley
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Ideology has consequences. -- Robert Greenwald
Ideology makes people stupid. -- Andrew Bacevich
Ideology is the science of idiots. -- John Adams
Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty. -- Mason Cooley
Ideology is the light that creates darkness. -- Robert Boswell
Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity. -- Terence McKenna
Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own. -- Joan Robinson
Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit. -- Mason Cooley
Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth. -- Rod Dreher
Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people. -- Diana Trilling
Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence. -- Louis Althusser
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it. -- Nadine Gordimer
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Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility. -- Terry Eagleton
Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier. -- Robert Musil
Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. -- Andrey Illarionov
Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed. -- Cynthia Dill
Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage. -- Lester Thurow
You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world. -- Douglas Coupland
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence. -- Louis Althusser
Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart. -- Frank Luntz
Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in the market. -- Joseph J. Romm
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
Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium) -- John Ralston Saul
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music. -- Kim Gordon
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away. -- George Packer
Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them. -- Vaclav Havel
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
Great ideology creates great times. -- Kim Jong Il
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. -- E. O. Wilson
You have your ideology and I have mine. -- Khalil Gibran
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -- Eugene Ionesco
I think of feminism as more of a political ideology. -- Callie Khouri
Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning. -- Chuck Hagel
Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology. -- Joe Slovo
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion? -- Andrew Sullivan
What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology. -- Kamala Harris
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. --
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology. -- Reza Aslan
In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible. -- Louis Althusser
Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table. -- Barack Obama
It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology. -- Joe Slovo
I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas. -- Bill Ayers
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. -- Bertrand Russell
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. -- Ludwig von Mises
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
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
I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated. -- Russell Crowe
There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success. -- Will Self
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
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. -- Eugene Ionesco
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
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
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
It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention. -- Jane Fonda
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks. -- Rick Perlstein
We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people. -- John Lynch
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
Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power. -- Ha-Joon Chang
My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology. -- Kurt Bills
The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished. -- James Buchan
Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. -- Deepak Chopra
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. -- Vaclav Klaus
It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities. -- Sonia Gandhi
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. -- Noam Chomsky
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
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
There's, you know, there's an ideology behind Ultron that makes him more unique that just a bad guy. He doesn't wanna just kill the Avengers. He doesn't wanna just destroy the world. He has these monologues and these beautiful speeches that kind of embody a certain mentality about what's wrong with humanity. -- Chris Evans
Chits knew no ideology. -- Rick Perlstein
Methodology is applied ideology. -- Mason Cooley
Great teachers transcend ideology. -- Suzanne Fields
Neoliberal ideology is enormously powerful. -- Henry Giroux
You photograph with all your ideology. -- Sebastiao Salgado
Every ideology is contrary to human psychology. -- Albert Camus
There are inconsistencies in Donald Trump's ideology. -- David Remnick
Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology. -- Elise M. Boulding
Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. -- James Burnham
Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations. -- Mason Cooley
The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. -- Tom Robbins
Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom. -- Vaclav Klaus
Islam is an ideology. It's not a race. -- Ibrahim Hooper
Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology. -- Joseph Joubert
Life has become the ideology of its own absence. -- Theodor Adorno
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology. -- Barry Eisler
I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology. -- Maurice Strong
Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive -- Simon Wiesenthal
It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition. -- Anthony Daniels
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No one can escape the influence of a prevailing ideology. -- Ludwig von Mises
Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom. -- Frank Bidart
I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology. -- Maajid Nawaz
The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz. -- Brian Eno
The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth. -- Saul Alinsky
The Islamic ideology is a political ideology based on a religion. -- Michael T. Flynn
The establishment's gonna come together to protect themselves regardless of ideology. -- Rush Limbaugh
If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love. -- Bruce Lee
Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle . -- Eric Hobsbawm
Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman. -- Simone de Beauvoir
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. -- Oscar Niemeyer
Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology. -- Evgeny Morozov
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts, -- Louis Althusser
You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you. -- Philip Roth
Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere -- George W. Bush
Nobody should be compelled to respect an ideology that doesn't respect them. -- Pat Condell
The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents. -- Edward Abbey
The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated. -- Indira Gandhi
I don't bring any ideology or barriers with me into my music. -- Mat McNerney
Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions. -- Nandan Nilekani
I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism. -- Jacob T. Schwartz
As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different. -- Samuel P. Huntington

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