Ideology Quotes
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![Karl Marx](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1523865402i/7084._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
![Upton Sinclair](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1438843258i/23510._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
![Slavoj Žižek](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1449231598i/2340358._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!”
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![Anthony de Mello](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1264048085i/54195.jpg)
“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”
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![Nelson Mandela](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1308928296i/367338._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
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![Slavoj Žižek](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1449231598i/2340358._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. shit is supposed to disappear as quickly as possible. Finally, the American (Anglo-Saxon) toilet presents a synthesis, a mediation between these opposites: the toilet basin is full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible, but not to be inspected. [...] It is clear that none of these versions can be accounted for in purely utilitarian terms: each involves a certain ideological perception of how the subject should relate to excrement. Hegel was among the first to see in the geographical triad of Germany, France and England an expression of three different existential attitudes: reflective thoroughness (German), revolutionary hastiness (French), utilitarian pragmatism (English). In political terms, this triad can be read as German conservatism, French revolutionary radicalism and English liberalism. [...] The point about toilets is that they enable us not only to discern this triad in the most intimate domain, but also to identify its underlying mechanism in the three different attitudes towards excremental excess: an ambiguous contemplative fascination; a wish to get rid of it as fast as possible; a pragmatic decision to treat it as ordinary and dispose of it in an appropriate way. It is easy for an academic at a round table to claim that we live in a post-ideological universe, but the moment he visits the lavatory after the heated discussion, he is again knee-deep in ideology.”
― The Plague of Fantasies
― The Plague of Fantasies
![Mark Fisher](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1485275334i/956173._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect). In the 1960s and 1970s, radical theory and politics (Laing, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, etc.) coalesced around extreme mental conditions such as schizophrenia, arguing, for instance, that madness was not a natural, but a political, category. But what is needed now is a politicization of much more common disorders. Indeed, it is their very commonness which is the issue: in Britain, depression is now the condition that is most treated by the NHS. In his book The Selfish Capitalist, Oliver James has convincingly posited a correlation between rising rates of mental distress and the neoliberal mode of capitalism practiced in countries like Britain, the USA and Australia. In line with James’s claims, I want to argue that it is necessary to reframe the growing problem of stress (and distress) in capitalist societies. Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, instead, that is, of accepting the vast privatization of stress that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill?”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
![Slavoj Žižek](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1449231598i/2340358._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.”
― Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
― Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
![Terry Eagleton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1238169688i/10283._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.”
― Ideology: An Introduction
― Ideology: An Introduction
![Frank Herbert](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1591018335i/58._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
― Chapterhouse: Dune
― Chapterhouse: Dune
![Hannah Arendt](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1608634661i/12806._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
![Karl Marx](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1523865402i/7084._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.”
― The Communist Manifesto
― The Communist Manifesto
![John Rawls](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1257280760i/74263._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.”
― Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
― Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
![Terry Pratchett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235562205i/1654._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.”
― Night Watch
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.”
― Night Watch
![Theodor W. Adorno](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615509860i/94301._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.”
― Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
― Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
![Slavoj Žižek](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1449231598i/2340358._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
― In Defense of Lost Causes
― In Defense of Lost Causes
![Slavoj Žižek](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1449231598i/2340358._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“It's not the same thing: coffee without cream or coffee without milk.
What you don't get is part of the identity of what you get.”
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What you don't get is part of the identity of what you get.”
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![Immanuel Kant](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651532424i/11038._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.”
― Critique of Pure Reason
― Critique of Pure Reason
![V.S. Naipaul](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1497418880i/3989._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...”
― Magic Seeds
― Magic Seeds
![Muhammad Ali Jinnah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1370576671i/792644._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.”
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![Salman Rushdie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1440718419i/3299._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.”
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![Mark Fisher](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1485275334i/956173._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The role of capitalist ideology is not to make an explicit case for something in the way that propaganda does, but to conceal the fact that the operations of capital do not depend on any sort of subjectively assumed belief. It is impossible to conceive of fascism or Stalinism without propaganda - but capitalism can proceed perfectly well, in some ways better, without anyone making a case for it.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
![Louis Althusser](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1238170083i/49146._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.”
― Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists: And Other Essays
― Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists: And Other Essays
![Mark Fisher](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1485275334i/956173._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Capitalist ideology in general, Zizek maintains, consists precisely in the overvaluing of belief - in the sense of inner subjective attitude - at the expense of the beliefs we exhibit and externalize in our behavior. So long as we believe (in our hearts) that capitalism is bad, we are free to continue to participate in capitalist exchange. According to Zizek, capitalism in general relies on this structure of disavowal. We believe that money is only a meaningless token of no intrinsic worth, yet we act as if it has a holy value. Moreover, this behavior precisely depends upon the prior disavowal - we are able to fetishize money in our actions only because we have already taken an ironic distance towards money in our heads.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
![Hemant Mehta](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1290163756i/23066._UX200_CR0,17,200,200_.jpg)
“Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.”
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![Mikki Kendall](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1477850283i/4510558._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Feminism as a career is the province of the privileged; it's hard to read dozens of books on feminist theory while you're working in a hair salon or engaged in the kinds of jobs that put food on the table but also demand a lot of physical and mental energy.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
![Peter Hitchens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1535025970i/39704._UY200_CR6,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The problem of utopia is that it can only be approached across a sea of blood, and you never arrive.”
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