323 Quotes About Ideology

Sunflowers face East in the morning and West in evening. They don't have a stand or a fixed ideology because they have the truth. They always face the Sun of truth.

The only people who treasure systems are those whom the whole truth evades, who want to catch it by the tail. A system is just like the truth's tail, but the truth is like a lizard. It will leave the tail in your hand and escape; it knows that it will soon grow another tail.

A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs to ideologies, he turns into a mouthpiece. He must hang on to his identity for dear life. In the end he must rely on his own judgment. It’s the only way to survive as a writer and an artist.

Zealots, ideologues, and tyrants are usually the people who feel that free speech is dangerous because it challenges their power.

Ideology, like every other weapon deployed in the quest for supremacy, is only a means to power. It is never the goal; it has no other sanctity except as a weapon. During the power struggle, like other weapons, ideology too takes a lot of hits and may be disfigured beyond recognition.

The problem is that we create an image of ourselves in our childhood and youth (often at the urging of parents, siblings or friends), and subsequently attempt to graft reality onto this image. More often than not, the graft doesn't take and the result is bewilderment and disappointment.

Money is precisely an object whose status depends on how we 'think' about it: if people no longer treat this piece of metal as money, if they no longer 'believe' in it as money, it no longer is money.

It's an unsettling business having to re-evaluate your world view. Neither of us were enjoying it.

~ There is a middle point to all things prayer~ Gabriel