Ideology Quotes

"Conservatism is not so much a banner of principles as a disposition of things and persons" "The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry" "You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you." "We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them." "Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." "The very fact that the left seems to have no alternative to their failed policies—other than the notion that, since people were not persuaded by their arguments, those arguments must be repeated in a louder voice—suggests a cognitive dissonance that defies logic" "Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power." "The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible." "Once again, we hear that familiar call for bipartisanship—when it’s really just a means of diverting attention from the fact that they’re demanding we bow to their values and give them power." "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it" "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." "To abandon oneself to principles is really to die" "The enemies of the revolution are the enemies of the people" "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."