Quotes about Ideology
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
— Ronald Reagan
Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.
— Ronald Reagan
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
— Ronald Reagan
The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!
— Nelson Mandela
Please assure me that you are all Republicans.
— Ronald Reagan
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.
— Joseph Campbell
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 Sire
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
— Albert Camus
For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. And
— Alexander Hamilton
That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.
— Dennis Prager
I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
— George Bernard Shaw