Top 121 Ideological Quotes

I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they’re not necessarily connected.
Nate Lowman
Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
Nandan Nilekani
Bernie Sanders is making a big and potentially dangerous mistake with his continuing insistence on changes to the Democratic Party’s rules and platform. I should know. As chairman of Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, I understand too well where such ideological stubbornness can lead.
William M. Daley
Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results.
Bob Beckel
Coinbase is ‘the’ brand in the Bitcoin space. Their founder Brian Armstrong was amongst the first good entrepreneurs to emerge in this space. While others championed ideological or underground/illicit interests, Brian saw an opportunity to change the world for the better and build a big business out of it.
Adam Draper
Venezuela’s government must work toward achieving a true culture of democracy for our region. There’s no room for persecution based on ideological reasons or for thinking differently.
Mauricio Macri
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
Ani DiFranco
I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I’m an ideological right-winger.
Christopher Buckley
The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.
Christopher Buckley
I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of these outlets as long as it’s transparent. We know where Breitbart stands, we know where Fox stands, where MSNBC stands. So, people go in with an understanding of that.
Tom Brokaw
Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn’t ideological; it’s good law enforcement.
Sally Yates
For Donald Trump, any opposition, either personal, ideological, or political is treason. Anyone who stands in his path betrays the Great Leader. Anyone who fails to take the knee is a traitor.
Rick Wilson
The CDU was a party that united different denominationa

The CDU was a party that united different denominational and ideological currents. If the idea of a rightward shift means that we ignore those roots and only define ourselves as a conservative party, then I am strictly opposed.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.
Andrei Sakharov
Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers in their selfish pursuit of re-election.
Mike Barnicle
The most extreme among the Brexiters are convinced they can ride the chaos and deploy the ‘shock doctrine’ to remake the nation in their ideological image.
David Olusoga
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.
Mitch Daniels
I founded Turning Point U.S.A. to take the fight for ideological diversity directly to a progressive stronghold: the nation’s leading colleges and universities.
Charlie Kirk
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
David Korten
By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers’ unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
Campbell Brown
Congress must hold those responsible for unfairly targeting organizations based on their ideological views accountable.
Mark Meadows
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
Pierre Bourdieu
I think, whatever ideological coloration we think actually applies to Trump, we can be pretty confident that he sees the American state as a mechanism to make sure that people called Trump are rich forever.
Timothy D. Snyder
Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
Warren Beatty
There’s a whole pipeline for where people recruit current Hill staff from, and it’s people who go through a kind of ideological training that’s incorrect, I’d say, and so there’s a lot of work to do, and Justice Democrats is trying to figure out where it fits.
Saikat Chakrabarti
There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
Jiang Qing
The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.
Jose Serrano
It’s easy to talk a good game in an echo chamber, it’s easy to witness to people who think exactly the same way you do, but to test your convictions by going outside your comfort zone is where the ideological battle needs to go.
Dana Loesch
The ideological and cultural revolutions have been promoted successfully in the countryside with the result that the ideological and spiritual qualities of our agricultural working people have been transformed remarkably, and a great development has also been achieved in the realm of cultural life in the countryside.
Kim Jong-un
I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.
Rahm Emanuel
I am purely a technocrat and I reject all ideological labels.
Gita Gopinath
America is not doctrinaire. It’s hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
P. J. O’Rourke
I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics – I think he is very astute. McEwan, I read a bit. But I suppose it’s more the ideological phenomenon that they represent together that interests me.
Terry Eagleton
Our ideological dilemmas won’t ever be solved by machines.
Charles Best
Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions.
Bret Stephens
The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.
Antonio Munoz Molina
When we engage people across ideological divides, asking questions helps us map the disconnect between our differing points of view.
Megan Phelps-Roper
This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.
Bill Moyers
The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
We’ll rail against the way the government has destroyed our health care market in one breath and resist the support offered to the poor and middle class to navigate this brokenness with the other. This is not conservative; it is incoherence masquerading as ideological purity.
J. D. Vance
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
Bill McKibben
I wouldn’t want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don’t think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.
Derek Bailey
An administration that really wanted to win an ideological contest with the Chinese Communist Party would stand up for human rights consistently, rather than calling journalists anywhere ‘the enemy of the people.’
Tom Malinowski
Because of my medical and ideological training, I am ac

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
Tabare Vazquez
This non-proletarianised plebs has been racialist when it has been colonialist; it has been nationalist – chauvinist – when it has been armed; and it has been fascist when it has become the police force.These ideological effects on the plebs have been uncontestable and profound.
Michel Foucault
Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.
Paul Weyrich
Even the humble black grandmother, who sings in the church choir and struggles to raise a grandchild abandoned to her care, must assert ideological liberalism in order to make others comfortable about her blackness.
Shelby Steele
Politicians wage broad wars on medicine to claim thin strips of ideological terrain. This would be good political theater if there weren’t so many human victims.
Scott Gottlieb
I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it’s the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
Barbara Kruger
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps, but in the differences that thrive behind settled, more clear-cut divisions.
Amitava Kumar
I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.
Jordan Peterson
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
Noam Chomsky
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting ‘Last Tango in Paris,’ I was thinking I was doing a political film.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Any time you’re a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are – either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced – that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.
Valerie Plame