#ideology

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#ideology #movements #obvious #ideology

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

— Morris Berman

#ideologies #ideology

Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture. ↗

— Charles Colson

#party #politics #ideology

Kemurnian barangkali memang tak ditakdirkan untuk dunia yang tak kekal, tak tunggal, ini. ↗

— Goenawan Mohamad

#ideologi #kepercayaan #moral #ideology

I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries. ↗

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

#modernity #philosophy #ideology

A further reason for my hatred of . . . ideologies is quite a primitive one. I have an aversion to killing people for the fun of it. What the fun is, I did not quite understand at the time, but in the intervening years the ample exploration of revolutionary consciousness has cast some light on this matter. The fun consists in gaining a pseudo-identity through asserting one's power, optimally by killing somebody—a pseudo-identity that serves as a substitute for the human self that has been lost. . . . A good example of the type of self that has to kill other people in order to regain in an Ersatzform what it has lost is the famous Saint-Juste, who says that Brutus either has to kill other people or kill himself. . . . . I have no sympathy whatsoever with such characters and have never hesitated to characterize them as "murderous swine. ↗

— Eric Voegelin

#ideology

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society. ↗

— Owen Jones

#inequality #politics #ideology

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Life has become the ideology of its own absence. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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Great teachers transcend ideology. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

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