Quotes about Ideology

The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!

Please assure me that you are all Republicans.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. And

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

We never had any money. All the money we used to get, my father would give to the Communist Party.

Curiously, many Democrats have acceded to Clintonism not because of their cold practicality and political professionalism, but because the Clintons are the sworn enemy of the right. The Clintons, in other words, while hardly being left, have been defined as the opposite of being right - the enemy of my enemy being my friend.