Top 522 Ideological Quotes & Sayings

Romney is an accomodationist technocrat who is an ideological pretzel of a man.

Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative.

I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

I was becoming post-ideological.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

We cannot ignore the networks where there is an ideological battle going on.

The ideological and cultural revolutions have been promoted successfully in the countryside with the result that the ideological and spiritual qualities of our agricultural working people have been transformed remarkably, and a great development has also been achieved in the realm of cultural life in the countryside.

Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle, the main goal must be to awaken people’s consciences, raising traumatising problems and sending ideological electroshocks: shocking ideas.

We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The reason is that the influence of the bourgeoisie and of the intellectuals who come from the old society will remain in our country for a long time to come, and so will their class ideology. If this is not sufficiently understood, or is not understood at all, the gravest mistakes will be made and the necessity of waging the struggle in the ideological field will be ignored.

To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality.

I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.

I'm not a particularly ideological person. There's things, some values I feel passionately about.

The Republican - conservative Republican answer has always been when we lose it's because we're not ideological enough. If they lose midterm elections, that's why. If Obama defeats McCain and then Mitt Romney, it's because those two Republican candidates were not ideological enough.

Our ideological dilemmas won't ever be solved by machines.

The post-Reagan era has been defined by overspending as the result of ideological overpromises.

If Trump does not start seeing things through an ideological prism, he will never understand the method, the motive, and the how and why these attacks against him happen. He doesn't see liberalism, and because he doesn't see liberalism, he can be outfoxed by it every day. He's not an ideological person.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

On domestic policy, one of the major stories in American politics has been the growing ideological and political self-confidence of the Democratic Party, and the growing ideological and political pessimism of the Republican Party.

I believe that we're in an ideological struggle; I believe the only way to marginalize those who murder the innocent, to achieve our ideological objectives, is to spread democracy and freedom.

I am purely a technocrat and I reject all ideological labels.

Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology seems therefore to take place outside it. That is why those who are in ideology believe themselves by definition outside ideology: one of the effects of ideology is the practical denegation of the ideological character of ideology by ideology: ideology never says, 'I am ideological.'

In the past, I have made a point of pointing out that Donald Trump is not ideological. Now, to me, that means more than he's not just conservative or liberal. But I guess I'm gonna need to add to that. When I say he's not ideological - and I'll explain that again - he's not a conservative, and he's not a liberal. He knows what both things are. It's just not how he looks at the world, and it's not how he sees people. Now, to some people that's refreshing and it's good. To other people, it's alarming.

Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation.

The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural maven like Falwell or Limbaugh who speaks to their manipulable pathos. The gulf between such individuals' education or intellectual competence or information and the actual issues of our times is simply too great. They were bred to be culture-media for false consciousness, junkies who crawl on their bellies across broken glass for another hit of "clarifying wisdom" from some ideological Pope.

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

There's an ideological belief on the left that you should not use nonpartisan tools.

Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.

It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

Heading the ideological Right is more important than being in the Likud.

An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias.

I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or wrong, or black or white, or whatever. To me, I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things.

People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.

The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.

[A]t the beginning of November 2001, there was a series of meetings between White House advisers and senior Hollywood executives with the aim of co-ordinating the war effort and establishing how Hollywood could help in the "war against terrorism" by getting the right ideological message across not only to Americans, but also to the Hollywood public around the globe the ultimate empirical proof that Hollywood does in fact function as an "ideological state apparatus.

Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.

It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.

I don't think Donald Trump is ideological.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.