#ideology

On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#away #basic #basic things #being #duped

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#dine #fast #fast food #feed #food

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

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. ↗

— Karl Barth

#god #ideology #nothing #quo #revelation