Quotes tagged ‘Ideology’

“I do believe there are common-sense solutions on both sides of the aisle if people would come together and remove their self interest and their ideology and recognize that they’ve been elected to represent all of America, not their individual constituency. It’s just a shame that we’re in a situation…”

— Howard Schultz, ca.sports.yahoo.com

“I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I try to imagine what it’s like inside his mind, what I would do if I were him. And I’m telling you, it is all sorts of...He has no ideology. No North Star. Isn’t that the scariest thing of all?”

— Melissa James Gibson, Frank Pugliese, Tom Hammerschmidt, Boris McGiver, imdb.com

“We have this ideological understanding of conflict, where we say it happens when people want different things. But I think it actually happens when people want the same thing — the same promotion, recognition for doing the same job well, the same toy as a kid.”

— Peter Thiel, washingtonpost.com

“Poverty is probably the greatest asset the Communists have. Wherever it exists, anyplace in the world, you have a potential Communist breeding ground. It figures that if a man is frustrated in a material sense, his family hungry, he suffers, he broods and he becomes susceptible to the blandishments…”

— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org

“My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

“Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.”

— Terence McKenna, books.google.com

“The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being achieved when in reality the artificially integrated circles are a soporific to the blacks while salving the consciences of the few guilt-stricken wh…”

— Steve Biko, amazon.com

“Soon you’ll realize that many people will love the idea of you but will lack the maturity to handle the reality of you.”

— Reyna Biddy, twitter.com

“I don’t think all writers are sad. I think it’s the other way around —– all sad people write.”

— Lang Leav, amazon.com

“Pure love for another person, and what people call romantic love, are two different things. Pure love doesn’t manipulate the relationship to one’s advantage, but romantic love is different. Romantic love contains other elements—the desire to be loved by the other person, for instance. If purely lovi…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you’re lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who’ve been around awhile know it’s just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get…”

— Colum McCann, amazon.com

“Sometimes I feel as though there are two me’s, one coating directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when he’s supposed to nod and says what he’s supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and dreams… Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly not…”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there’s nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”

— Richard Brautigan, articles.baltimoresun.com

“That is the precise line the Shakespearean evildoer could not cross. But the evildoer with ideology does cross it, and his eyes remain dry and clear.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org

“Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete.”

— Rod Serling, books.google.com

“The beauty of science is that people actually change their minds based on new evidence.”

— Darrel W. Ray, amazon.com

“I am inclined to satisfy the claims of my own ideals rather than the expectations of others.”

— Richard Wright, amazon.com

“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.”

— Lana Del Rey, rollingstone.com

“Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.”

— Mark Rothko, theguardian.com