Ideologies Quotes

“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ”
― Wilhelm Reich

“An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you”
― Morris Berman

“Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

“যারা প্রথম কোনও সংস্কার ভাঙে, তাদের অনেক নিন্দাও সহ্য করতে হয়। যারা নতুন কোনও পথ দেখায়, তাদের তৈরি থাকতে হয় পথের অনেক বাধার জন্য। যারা মুক্তি অভিলাষী, তাদের খুলতে হয় অনেক বন্ধ দ্বার। আবার এ কথাও ঠিক, যারা পথিকৃৎ, তারা অত্যুৎসাহে কিছুটা বাড়াবাড়িও করে ফেলে, অনেক সময় তাদের স্বাধীন চেতনা ঔদ্ধত্যের মতন মনে হয়, প্রকট নতুনত্ব মনে হয় দৃষ্টিকটু।”
― Sunil Gangopadhyay, প্রথম আলো ১

“The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies and agents of change. Conflicting ideas include political, social, legal, and ethical concepts. Agents of change include environmental factors, social pressure to conform, aging, and the forces inside us that made us into whom we are as well as the forces compelling us to be a different type of person.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The ideas, ideals, ideologies that we hold are learned, taught or sometimes indoctrinated. Some are temporary ....some linger indefinitely. Some are found along our path; adopted through desire, desperation, nativity, through hurt, epiphany or realised under a tree. But do not hate the person ....instead shift through loving action and transform our deeds.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Question all “your” ideas and ideologies - about
everything. You’d be wise to look at a house from every perspective before you choose to live in it.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“There are essentially two different philosophies at play in our politics: one that says, we are all in this together, let's help each other; and the other that says, I got mine, you are on your own. One is compassionate; the other is indifferent to the suffering of others.”
― Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis

“Ideologies are sacred in normal times. But when chaos begins to reign, or when a radical change of the person’s status occurs, ideologies may be abandoned or created in a second.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“We may have plenty of pompous ideologies and schools of thought, but if we don't have an everyday concern for our society, then they are all meaningless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“Sociologist Barry Glassner (1999) has documented many of the biases introduced by “If it bleeds, it leads” news reporting, and by the strategic efforts of special interest groups to control the agenda of public fear of crime, disease, and other hazards. Is an increase of approximately 700 incidents in 50 states over 7 years an “epidemic” of road rage? Is it conceivable that there is (or ever was) a crisis in children’s day care stemming from predatory satanic cults? In 1994, a research team funded by the U.S. government spent 4 years and $750,000 to reach the conclusion that the myth of satanic conspiracies in day care centers was totally unfounded; not a single verified instance was found (Goodman, Qin, Bottoms, & Shaver, 1994; Nathan & Snedeker, 1995). Are automatic-weapon-toting high school students really the first priority in youth safety? (In 1999, approximately 2,000 school-aged children were identified as murder victims; only 26 of those died in school settings, 14 of them in one tragic incident at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.) The anthropologist Mary Douglas (Douglas & Wildavsky, 1982) pointed out that every culture has a store of exaggerated horrors, many of them promoted by special interest factions or to defend cultural ideologies. For example, impure water had been a hazard in 14th-century Europe, but only after Jews were accused of poisoning wells did the citizenry become preoccupied with it as a major problem.
But the original news reports are not always ill-motivated. We all tend to code and mention characteristics that are unusual (that occur infrequently). [...] The result is that the frequencies of these distinctive characteristics, among the class of people considered, tend to be overestimated.”
― Reid Hastie, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making

“If our ideologies differ, please do not send a violent personal message in my inbox. This is worthless because my opinion changes on a daily basis.”
― Divya Gandotra Tandon

“Intolerance is born of ideological allegiance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“We are conscientious practical human beings whose initiatives should be dictated by the demands of the circumstances and not by ideologies and schools of thought.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“There are indeed abominable ideas and beliefs which are of no discernible good, but we should not assume our ideas are so flawless that ever applies to entire groups of people.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“A professed conservative who believes we can simply turn back the clock to an earlier era and reconstitute the social arrangements proper to that time is misguided. But so also is the progressive who believes that all prior social orders can be judged by the “obviously” more enlightened ones of our own day. 'Political Visions and Illusions'.”
― David T Koyzis

“So where does a biblically Christian worldview take us? If, as I have been arguing, the various ideologies are rooted in an idolatrous religion, then what does a nonidolatrous approach to society and politics look like? To begin with, it properly and unquestionably acknowledges the sovereignty of God over the whole of life. Like liberalism, it sees a legitimate place for individual rights and freedoms whilst reminding us that the individual is not sovereign. Like conservatism, it calls us to recognise the proper place of tradition and repudiates those who facilely believe we can do without it. Yet unlike conservatism, it cannot countenance a simple and uncritical deferral to tradition, but recognises that traditions are human formations, subject, like all other human works, to the taint of sin. Like both nationalism and the democratic creed, it recognizes the rightful place of human community, however defined, but rejects all effort at positing such community as an all-encompassing focus of loyalty from which other loyalties, to the extent they are permitted, are merely derivative. Similarly, a nonidolatrous political perspective recognizes the legitimate, though limited, capacity of government to affect economic equity, but it eschews socialist expectations of an eschatological consummation engendered by a salvific working class.”
― David T. Koyzis, Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies

“Theories, philosophies, ideologies, all later, first realization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“We are all nonbinary people, for life is nonbinary.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Beyond Inclusion (The Sonnet)

It is not really inclusion that we must aim for,
Rather we must work to outgrow the need for inclusion.
It is not really global harmony that we must aim for,
We must outgrow the very term international relations.
It is not really a reform in policy that we must aim for,
Rather we must aim to outgrow the need for policy aids.
It is not really social awareness we must aim to advocate,
Rather we must be the living epitome of social oneness.
It is not a flea market of parties that we must aim to build,
Rather we must turn the very term partisanism obsolete.
It is not a junkyard of ideologies that we must aim to raise,
Absorbing good from all, let us stop being ideological elites.
Plenty of time we have wasted on arguments of philosophy.
Now let's go out on the streets and soil to get our hands dirty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“There is not much difference between an ideological dingus and septicemic fungus, both cause nothing but death and disease in society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“One world, one family, one life - that's the motto. This is not humanitarianism, this is not socialism, this is not humanism. You know what it is? It is the ism of no ism – it is the ism of life, love and living across all ism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“All have the right to ideology, but none has the right to division.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“Virtue No Ism (The Sonnet)

What is this obsession with ism before human!
Why are we still catering to ancestral stupidity!
Are we really gonna let their shortsightedness,
To define our capacity, character and destiny!
Some of them might have had the vision of unity,
Hence they spoke of peace and neighborly love.
But most lacked the sight to live beyond ism,
And we continue to prioritize ism over love.
No ideology has a monopoly over virtue,
Virtues are born of mind, not ideology.
Yet all ideologies try to codify virtue,
By doing so they only vilify all virtuosity.
All virtues are but the descendants of love.
To codify virtue is to ruin the universality of love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Wherever an ideology claims supremacy, there it breeds terrorism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“No ideology has a monopoly over virtue, virtues are born of mind, not ideology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“FOLLOW YOUR HEART, FOLLOW YOUR BEING
How do we come in contact with our heart and begin to see the truth? We need to follow our heart, we need to follow our own nature. We need to have the courage to listen to our heart. To follow ournature means to  learn to trust yourself. Hidden deep within ourselves is the silent voice of truth. If you become silent, you will be guided from within from the silent voice. To follow our nature is the only possibility to attain freedom. When all lies and conditions from society is removed, you will discover your essential nature. Your nature is to become God. To follow your nature is to follow your consciousness, but you have been told by the parent, the teachers. the priests and the politicians to follow ideologies, philosophies and religions - and not to follow your own nature. When you know your own inner voice, you will be free. if you listen to your  heart, no one can manipulate and control you again.
To become available to your inner nature is mediation. It is to become aware that there is source within you, from where God speaks to you.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, God is Everywhere: You are Divine, Everything is Divine

“Ism is the prison,
Ism is impediment.
Take the I beyond the ism,
And lo, you are sapient!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“The West’s credibility as a reference for all things human rights related has waned and is now almost non-existent. The war on Gaza has cost them more than just weapons, it has set the West back hundreds of years and tarnished their image as the leaders of humanity.”
― Aysha Taryam

“We all live in the past. Your parents have given you a certain conditioning. The society has given you a certain conditioning, and to live in that conditioning is to live your life in a prison. The religions have forced you to be a Christian, a Hindu, a Mohammedan or a Buddhist, which are all conditionings. 
Meditation is a freedom from all these conditionings that parents, the society and the religions have forced on you. Unless you are free you will never be able to hear your own authentic inner voice. 
Your parents will tell you "do this and don't do this." The priests will goon creating guilt and shame in you. They will not allow you to be yourself.  Nobody in the world is really interested in anybody else being given the freedom to be himself or herself. Everybody is trying to impose their ideas and ideologies on others.  That is why humanity is in such misery and chaos. 
We have created an ugly world, where we have not allowed children to be themselves.  We have created a prison made of ideas, theologies and ideologies. You can think that you are free, but you are not free. We have to get rid of this prison. We have to uncondition ourselves, sothat we become free. It is first when the whole sky is ours that the whole existence is ours. When one realizes this, one just wants freedom, joy, silence,  awareness, truth and love. In that inner silence and freedom,the whole heritage of humanity becomes ours. Then we know that truth is within ourselves. 
My first book in English, The Silent Whisperings of the Heart, is dedicated to my parents, Essy and Sven, with the dedication: "My parents, who taught me what love and freedom are.” My whole childhood was an atmosphere and climate of love and freedom. An American astrologer said in an astrology  session in the United States that my mother seemed to be a very special  woman. She was so rebellious that the boys in elementary school held herdown and shot her in the foot with an air rifle.  Once when I was in high school, I wanted to  have a little parental conflict, and said to my mother that I would never go back to school again. My mother replied: I would never do that either. This atmosphere and climate of love and freedom made me always feel that I could be who I am. It also taught me early to listen to my inner true voice, which early began to guide me in life.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace