323 Quotes About Ideology

There should be only one political ideology and that is good governance.

History's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell.

Be careful that the hill you die on isn't a molehill

Cuando alguien nos pregunta qué somos en política o, anticipándosecon la insolencia que pertenece al estilo de nuestro tiempo, nos adscribe auna, en vez de responder, debemos preguntar al impertinente qué piensa élque es el hombre y la naturaleza y la historia, qué es la sociedad y elindividuo, la colectividad, el Estado, el uso, el derecho. La política seapresura a apagar las luces para que todos estos gatos resulten pardos

People who bicker about ideologies in public are likely to have other bad habits as well.

But if Cravaggio really is the first master of modern age to be slighted by reason of his artistic worth, then the baroque signifies an important turning point in the relationship between art and the public - namely, the end of the "aesthetic culture" which begins with the Renaissance and the beginning of the more rigid distinction between content and form in which formal perfection no longer serves as excuses for any ideological lapse.

Ideology: the mistaken belief that your beliefs are neither mistaken nor beliefs.

I don't mean a 1905 Republican---I don't know what his Tennessee politics were, or if he had any---I mean a 1961 Republican. He was more: he was a Conservative. Like this: a Republican is a mad who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefooted Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write.

The trouble with ideology, Alice, is that it hates the private. You must make it human.