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“To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.”

Social Theory Circumstances Claims Doctrine Ideology Derivatives

Book:In Defence of Politics

Source: In Defence of Politics

“I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.”

Children Mother Circumstances Ideology

Book:Simone De Beauvoir Today

Source: Simone De Beauvoir Today

“[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.”

“Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.”

May States Helping Problem Political Politics Technology Higher Circumstances Protection Planning Ideology Firm Manifestation Technological Compulsion Political Will

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional involvement with anything - with issues, ideology, a woman, even a family - can be a handicap, not only consuming valuable time, but more importantly, reducing flexibility and the capacity for detached calculation needed to take maximum advantage of continually changing circumstances.”

Source: Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream

“If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.”

Ifs Men Doe Process Objects Circumstances Cameras Historical Arise Ideology Phenomenon Upside Down Inversions Camera Obscura

Book:The German Ideology

Source: The German Ideology

“What this ideology, what this myth about savagery did was really excuse America for the disappearance of the Indian. It wasn't our fault. They were just an inferior race. And so John Marshall adopts that. And the tragedy and the present-day circumstances of that decision are that those racial attitudes are so deeply embedded in these foundational principles of American Indian law.”

Decision Attitude Circumstances Tragedy Excuse Myth Ideology Embedded American Indian Savagery

Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.

“The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.”

Humans Ideas Enough Christian Desire Dies Asks Circumstances Ordinary Ideology Vulnerable

Author:Kathleen Norris