“Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.” SpiritualMotivationFoundGrowsGrowthImaginationDoubtPromiseEgoProfoundIdeologyCertaintyExpansionTruismNew KnowledgeDispelling Author:James Hollis
“The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which promise much but deliver little. The central doctrine of Neo-Conservatism is "democratic capitalism." This is the ultimate oxymoron, because in practice the political pluralism that should underlie democracy cannot exist in a climate of economic plutocracy.” ShouldLittlesRealPoliticalPoliticsCausesPovertyPracticeEconomyDemocracyEconomicPromiseCapitalismUltimateDemocraticClimateTerrorismDoctrineOppressionIdeologyLiberalismConservatismBankruptcyPluralismOxymoronPlutocracy Author:Robert Dickson Crane
“Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises.” PromiseIdeologyLiberationHorizon Author:Arianna Huffington
“[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.” MadeRealityReligionNextPoliticsPresidentLeadershipPolicyPromiseStrategyIdeologyVotingPresident ObamaFree SpeechMessiah Author:Barbara Walters
“I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job.” IfsGivingFeelsTryingI CanTwoJobsWorkPolicyPromiseSceneStrategyIndividualityIdeology Author:Nicolas Cage
“I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.” BornCommunityGenerationsPromiseIdeologySoccerGrandfatherFree SpeechI PromiseFetishGreat GrandfatherLearning English Author:Ann Coulter