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  • The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.

    "Why Are the Republicans Such Anti-Obama Liars?". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 01, 2009.
  • I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

  • Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the nation, we will be able to ensure that no group of ideologues and no private sector institution can coopt our rights, take us into senseless wars and steal the nation from its people.

    War   Rights   People  
  • People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.

    White   People   House  
    "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 05, 2010.
  • These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.

    Guy   Crooks   Ideologues  
  • One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.

  • I don't think Donald Trump is an ideologue, so it's not really his policies that I think are going to maybe fire people up. It's his rhetoric and, you know, his willingness to wield power in a manner that can be potentially exploitative and dangerous.

    Thinking   Fire   People  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity.

    Theodor Adorno (2003). “Negative Dialectics”, p.19, Routledge
  • Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

    Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.115, Vintage
  • You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

    Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography”, Simon & Schuster
  • I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

  • I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

    Party   Election   Vote  
  • Just as some of the most ardent political ideologues in the West are young people, revolutionaries, the '60s generation, - in Islam some of the most religious people are the youngsters. But more important than that, the prophet - in his writings, in his traditions - and the Koran itself say that the Muslim youth are the ones whom the future depends on and that it's up to them to do the fighting.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.

  • The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

  • The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

    Ideas   Giving   Misuse  
  • Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

    Jonah Goldberg (2012). “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas”, p.24, Penguin
  • liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.

    Mean   Media   Expression  
    bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.75, Routledge
  • Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best" American higher criticism.

    Christian   Art   Epic  
    "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.
  • I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever

    "During Government Shutdown, Nonprofits Amplify Message About Women’s Reproductive Rights", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.
  • Nate Silver says this is a 73.6 percent chance that the president is going to win. Nobody in that campaign thinks they have a 73 — they think they have a 50.1 percent chance of winning. And you talk to the Romney people, it’s the same thing.

    Winning   Thinking   Race  
    "Statistician Nate Silver Scores Big On Election Night". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 7, 2012.
  • The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.

    Russell Kirk (2014). “The Politics of Prudence”, p.21, Open Road Media
  • I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

  • To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.

    "Europe's traditions of tolerance and multiculturalism put to test after Paris terror attacks". www.foxnews.com. February 19, 2015.
  • My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death.

    Government   Ideas   Guy  
  • Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let the Bible define God. Our tradition says that Jesus is God. Maybe we should act as if we think he is instead of worshipping a book. Maybe we should be brave enough to admit that we are compelled to either become blinded ideologues or we need to forthrightly pick and choose what we follow in the Bible. Most Christians do that anyway, many just don’t admit it.

    Christian   Jesus   Book  
  • I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist.

    "Rudy Giuliani's Take on Closing Guantanamo Bay". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2009.
  • No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Is there anything more dangerous than an ideologue who doesn't know he's wrong?

    "Seymour Hersh: Man On Fire". Interview with Lakshmi Chaudhry, www.alternet.org. October 26, 2004.
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