I Quotes
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“Ideological introversion manifests not as a retreat from society, but as a retreat from discourse; it is the solitary journey of decision-making, where debate is replaced by the quiet birth of resolution.”
“Ideological pressure is much more crippling than commercial pressure. Crippling to your own freedom of thinking and creating, crippling the final results. If you wanted to succeed during the really hard-line totalitarian regime, you have to make so many compromises to please the censors that you don't recognize the original idea from the final result.”
“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.”
“Ideological thinking ruins all relationship with reality”
“Ideological thinking - that is in thinking that is by definition not one's own, which is blind to experience and to the contradictions that arise when broader fields of knowledge are consulted - is a capitulation no one should ever make. It is a betrayal of our magnificent minds and of all the splendid resources our culture has prepared for their use.”
Source: What Are We Doing Here?
“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.”
“Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is actually highly formulaic.”
“Ideologies, and hence ideological clashes, antagonism, and fixations, are as old as civilization itself. During most of history, ideologies were mainly religious, whereas during modern times they have taken the form often described as "secular religions" or "religion substitutes". They have always served to legitimize socioeconomic and political orders, or have projected alternatives to them.”
Source: Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars
“Ideologies are a hypocrite's way of begging for attention. Real reformers only care about society, not ideological castration.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“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.”
“Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.”
“Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.”
“Ideologies can only ever hope to change our lifestyles; it takes soul to change our lives.”
Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul
“Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.”
“Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.”
Source: Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology
“Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.”
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
“Ideologies were invented so that men who do not think can give their opinions.”
“Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.”
“Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.”
“Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.”
“Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions.”
“Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.”
“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.”
“Ideology
Fidel Castro was considered an ideologue by many. His fanaticism was always a continuing animosity towards the United States, while at the same time working to increase his good relationship with most left leaning Latin American countries. However, there have been times when out of necessity he had a tacit understanding with the United States. On September 11, 2001, Fidel Castro offered Cuban airports as emergency landing places, when all American aircraft were diverted from their primary destinations and ordered to land immediately, after the attack on the Twin Towers in New York City. On another occasion he accepted a one-time purchase of food after Category 4 Hurricane Michelle struck the island that same year. Once, he declined a U.S. Government offer of humanitarian aid turning to Canada instead. Castro continued having close relations with Canada and demonstrated this friendship when he attended Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s funeral in the fall of the year 2000. It was a way that he could retain contact with the western world without becoming involved with the United States.”
“Ideology has consequences.”
“Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.”
“Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.”
“Ideology is a ghetto where reason goes to die”
“Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.”
“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.”
Source: The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe
“Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.”
“Ideology is no excuse for not focusing on working for and with the people who pay you to represent them, despite their politics — people who you are supposed to be fighting for.”
Source: Just Tyrus
“Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons having to do with emotional safety, we have very strong ties of whose meaning and consequences in actuality we have no clear understanding.”
Source: The Liberal Imagination
“Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
Source: In Defense of Lost Causes
“Ideology is summary...in the world of collective nuance we are all easily overwhelmed by information”
“Ideology is the science of idiots.”
“Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.”
Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor
“Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.”
“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.”
“Ideology makes people stupid.”
“Ideology offers human beings the illusion of dignity and morals while making it easier to part with them.”
“Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.”
“Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. We had doubts about the Kyoto Protocol, we wanted reasoning from our partners in the European Union, in the IPCC. Formal requests had been sent to these organizations. But we have not received responses yet, which suggests that no coherent answers can be offered. What we hear is 'it is not comprehensive responses that matter, we will not give them anyway; what is important is whether you believe us or not'.”
“Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.”
Source: On Ideology
“Ideology serves to both increase the value of the inside option, thereby alleviating brain drain, and enhance cooperative norms within the group, thereby alleviating free-riding.”
Source: The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World
“Ideology to me is fundamentally is an elite pursuit. I mean most people are just not all that interested in single payer vs. government pay ... they're very interested in you know, 'Wait, are there going to be death panels.' But that's all a creation of this like hothouse media and politics environment. So maybe if humanism is an ideology then it's ideological, but I don't see it as being on the traditional left/right spectrum.”
“Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom.”
“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.”
Source: Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do
“Ideology without grievances doesn't resonate. Grievances without ideology aren't acted upon.”