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There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ↗

— Edward Abbey

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In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible. ↗

— Louis Althusser

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White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples. ↗

— Cornel West

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Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole. ↗

— B.W. Powe

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Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors. ↗

— James W. Sire

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It's not the same thing: coffee without cream or coffee without milk. What you don't get is part of the identity of what you get. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

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Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity. ↗

— Terence McKenna

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Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique. ↗

— John R.W. Stott

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Salahkah bila kita menghargai pikiran yang merdeka-yang tidak dikejar kejar, yang tak diusut dan diancam, sebuah pikiran yang tak ditakut-takuti oleh cap "berdosa" atas nama Tuhan ataupun kewaspadaan. ↗

— Goenawan Mohamad

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