Quotes about Ideology
it's white male life. The master narrative is whatever ideological script that is being imposed by the people in authority on everybody else. The master fiction. History. It has a certain point of view. So, when these little girls see that the most prized gift that they can get at Christmastime is this little white doll, that's the master narrative speaking. "This is beautiful, this is lovely, and you're not it.
- Nikki Giovanni
One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs." —PHILLIP E. JOHNSON
- Norman Geisler
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.
- Charles Colson
Whether theologians acknowledge it or not, all theologies begin with experience... We are all particular human beings, finite creatures, and we create our understanding of God out of our experience. Hopefully, our own experience points to the universal, but it is never identical with it. For when we mistake our own talk about God with ultimate reality, we turn it into ideology.
- James H. Cone
But secular-ism, more than any other single word, aptly describes the mental framework and value structure of the people of our time.
- James Montgomery Boice
When I worked picking cotton as a boy with my grandparents, when blacks were moral and hard-working, we loved the country, too. It only makes sense to love the place where you were born - especially the United States of America. But as blacks fell for the lies of socialism and communism, they also fell away from love.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.
- Dinesh D'Souza
Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.
- H Richard Niebuhr
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
- Francis Schaeffer
Robbed of its reference to a transcendent spiritual being or substance that nonetheless personally engages with humanity while holding them responsible to its specific directives on how to live, this "love" ("God") has no recourse but to become whatever the current ideology says it is. Currently that means not treating people as different, while liberating them and enabling them to do what they want.
- Dallas Willard
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
- William Gladstone
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
- Henry A. Wallace