#ideology

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#china #control #forced #ideology #instrument

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#architecture #disseminate #ideology #political #political ideology

As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#asked #challenging #difficulties #economy #elected

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#house #ideology #looking #men #other

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#american people #conservatism #i #ideology #people

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#cocktail #fundamentalism #ideology #islamic #lethal

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion? ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#equivalent #how #ideology #political #political ideology

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#success #love

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away. ↗

— George Packer

#compromise #ideology #principles #values #ideology

The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#ideology