#ideology

In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world. ↗

— David Hume

#men

When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think! ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#money #philosophy #politics #money

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends. ↗

— Isabel Paterson

#humanitarianism #ideology #motivational

If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root cause of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim. This is insidious, because ideology is something we carry around with us in our heads; it forms the basis of our day-to-day understanding of the world. ↗

— Bob Torres

#ideology

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#i #ideas #ideology #say #straight

You have your ideology and I have mine. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#ideology #mine #you #your

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#great #ideology #lincoln #love #obama

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#downloading #feels #guilty #ideology #intelligent

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#communication #complement #each #ideology #into

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#discard #durable #enough #generates #ideology