323 Quotes About Ideology

Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity to apprehend and appreciate irony, I suggest that the recovery of the ironic might be our fifth principle for the restoration of reading. ... But with this principle, I am close to despair, since you can no more teach someone to be ironic than you can instruct them to become solitary. And yet the loss of irony is the death of reading, and of what had been civilized in our natures.

Using information about animal behavior to justify social or political ideology is wrong . . . People need to be able to make decisions about their lives without having to worry about keeping up with the bonobos.

If you are determined to understand the deeper meaning of the Cosmos to which you belong, the Nature of which you are a part, and the Life that you lead, then ideologies with all their political, historical or religious forms are only a delusion that mystifies this meaning. All ideologies are just a waste of time in this context.

Якщо в ідеології є насолода, то є і ностальгія за самовдоволенністю.

...I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...

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

Be mad - be drunk - be obsessed, not for a guru, messiah, doctrine or ideology, but for an idea - a novel, original idea with the potential for doing good in the world.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about, and you gave him money and York Harding's books on the East and said, 'Go ahead. Win the East for democracy.' He never saw anything he hadn't heard in a lecture hall, and his writers and his lecturers made a fool of him.

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.