#ideology

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#believing #blinded #fall #fallible #human

Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It's all about business. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#anymore #because #bound #business #china

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ideology #mind #political #political ideology #science

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#failing #ideology #incentive #just #powerful

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#consider #creating #dangerous #dangerous thing #enemy

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ↗

— Hal Borland

#accuse #bird #challenge #ideology #squirrel

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conservatism #contemporary #denial #ideology #ostensibly

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it. ↗

— John McCarthy

#behalf #devoted #ideology #killed #once

The non-comic, factual explanation is that I felt there was a myth about terrorist bombers being medieval-minded, 'fundamentalist, primitivist' people. There seems to be a lot of evidence to contradict that, especially in Britain. Some of the ideology behind what has become modern jihadism was socially progressive, certainly in Egypt, for example. ↗

— Chris Morris

#become #behind #being #bombers #britain

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#first time #history #hold #ideology #monopoly