323 Quotes About Ideology

Communism looked good on paper, you know' — but how many people who say that even know what communism looks like on paper?

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

How very like humans to pervert a message of love and peace to make it into an ideology of war and oppression to serve their own ends.

No ideology is worth a Human life.

Ideological conformity depends on conditions of prosperity; it has no staying-power of its own.

Every stance unchallenged is positioned to boast on some victorious moral high ground.

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.