#ideology

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#continue #demonstrated #even #exist #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

Interestingly, one mate of mine, a proper leftie, in his heyday all Red Wedge and right-on punch-ups, was melancholy. "I thought I'd be overjoyed, but really it's just … another one bites the dust …" This demonstrates, I suppose, that if you opposed Thatcher's ideas it was likely because of their lack of compassion, which is really just a word for love. If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one's enemies. ↗

— Russell Brand

#death #ideology #love #thatcher #death

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#alone #belief #causing #extent #global

Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#freedom #ideology #language #freedom

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#democracy #end #era #example #failed

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. ↗

— Jean Genet

#ideology #interpretation #liberation #main #man

Der Pragmatismus ersetzt uns alles, was früher die großen Ideen, die Ideologien und Religionen, der Glaube an Friede, Menschenrechte und Demokratie zu bieten hatten. Der Pragmatismus hält uns davon ab, zu Verbrechern zu werden, oder er macht uns zu solchen, wenn es nötig ist. Er legitimiert das Bestehen von Rechtssystem, Familie und Arbeit, er lässt uns nett sein und empfiehlt, sich ein angenehmes Äußeres zu erwerben. Nachdem wir uns aller Zwänge nach und nach erledigt haben, sorgt ein einziger Betreuer für uns: Pragmatismus. ↗

— Juli Zeh

#philosophy #pragmatism #religion #family

It believes that all “powers” belonging to the people of Cambodia which is its idea of democracy. The other part of its ideology is nationalism since it wants to protect its “sovereignty”. It also is left wing in its view since it believes in getting people particularly those who are ”young” jobs which the LDP will create by “attracting local and foreign investors in all sectors.” Two other examples of its left wing ideology is trying to find ways of stopping the powerfully rich who grab land want to try to give it to “landless people”. The second point is putting the money of the public society into constructing “schools and hospitals and promote the wellbeing of rural people.” Another example of its right wing ideology is that it wants to create laws and “mechanisms” that will fight “corruption”. "People in one country should direct their leader that come from their selection,so that freedom is useful in that country ↗

— Khem Veasna

#freedom

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself. ↗

— Michael Billig

#nationalism #war #life