John Adams
Founding Father, Politician
"Ideology is the science of idiots."
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Ideology
87 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Queen Rania of Jordan
Queen consort, Philanthropist
"You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea."
Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher, Cultural Critic
"The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology."
Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism."
Philip Roth
Novelist
"You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you."
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"Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom."
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"Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom."
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"The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism."
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"The Third World is not a reality but an ideology."
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"You have your ideology and I have mine."
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"Every ideology is contrary to human psychology."
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"Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature."
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"The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated."
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"The jihadists ideology cannot be wiped out with force much less killed. You know, unless we understand the root causes of this, we're going to perpetuate this violence over and over again."
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"All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American."
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"The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents."
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"Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology."
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"[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations."
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