Quotes about Ideology

Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.

a person who thinks should not try to persuade others to his belief; that is what puts him on the road to a system; on the lamentable road of the man of conviction; politicians like to call themselves that; but what is a conviction? It is a thought that has come to a stop, that has congealed, and the man of conviction is a man restricted.

Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture.

The War on Terror is ultimately a battle for the human mind and heart.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.

It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

I was taught, growing up, that there are two ends of the political spectrum: left and right. But there's so much more than that. For me, it's about liberty versus authoritarianism.

Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

A worldview can be replaced only by another worldview.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs.