Ideology Quotes

“Critical theory”

“Private property ideology”

“The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.”

“An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you.”

“ideology”

“Every human way of acting which hides the true nature of society ... is ideological.”

“Wikipedia: Ideology”

“Like God, however, ideology is dead. The bloody excesses of the twentieth century killed it.”

“The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.”

“Triteness of content has not necessarily hurt ideologies in the past. There are very few original or profound ideologies on the political scene.”

“As public communications are expanded and speeded up, their effectiveness is worn out by repetition; so there is a continuous demand for new slogans and beliefs and ideologies.”

“Today the ideology is in the process of production itself. ... The productive apparatus and the goods and services which it produces “sell” or impose the social system as a whole.”

“The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.”

“Every interest and power, every passion and bias, every hatred and hope tends to acquire an ideological apparatus with which to compete with the slogans and symbols, the doctrines and appeals of other interests.”

“The demand for explicit ideological justifications has been greatly enlarged, if only because new institutions of enormous power have arisen but have not been legitimated, and because older powers have outrun their old sanctions.”

“The problem of ideology ... has especially to do with the concepts and the languages of practical thought which stabilize a particular form of power and domination; or which reconcile and accommodate the mass of the people to their subordinate place in the social formation.”

“Perhaps I did not succumb to ideology … because I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness. In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, later on, you wonder what in the world the truth is, but you do know what a lie is.”

“Capitalism is an exploitative system, as Marx has argued so cogently, and as anyone who studies the inequalities within and between the countries of the world today must see. It is therefore a priori likely that its ideology conceals realities that if known would make the exploited militant.”

“Science may be in the interest of the ruling class, after all, but it is still responsive to epistemic norms, and so anyone with epistemic interests has reason to accept science. Ideologies, by contrast, have their genesis explained solely by their capacity to further the interests of the ruling class.”

“Ideologies involve a mistake about their origin: agents think that the ideology arose because of its responsiveness to epistemically relevant considerations (e.g., evidence, reasons, etc.), when, in fact, it arose only because it was responsive to the interests of the dominant economic class in the existing economic system.”