#ideologies

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible. ↗

— George Tenet

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Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology. ↗

— James Carville

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Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium. ↗

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

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The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#creating #different #each #election #embrace

An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you ↗

— Morris Berman

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Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

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