#ideology

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Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.


George Packer


#compromise #ideology #principles #values #ideology

The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation.


Bell Hooks


#ideology

...we're also extremely sensitive to the difference between literacy and ideology. It is our belief that the first helps to thwart intolerance, challenge dogma, and reinforce our common humanity. The second does the opposite.


Greg Mortenson


#literacy #ideology

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Goenawan Mohamad


#negara #ideology

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.


Malcolm Turnbull


#alone #belief #causing #extent #global

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.


Jean Genet


#ideology #interpretation #liberation #main #man

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.


Arundhati Roy


#anyway #created #does #fixed #history

There is no monopoly of common sense On either side of the political fence We share the same biology Regardless of ideology Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too [...] There's no such thing as a winnable war It's a lie we don't believe anymore ..." (The Russians)


Sting


#common-sense #communalities #ideology #peace #war

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.


Michael Billig


#nationalism #war #life

The numbers were, at best, guesstimates, and all three men knew it. The relevant figure would ultimately be the one that represented the most they could possibly ask from Congress without raising too many questions. Whatever that sum turned out to be, they knew they could count on (Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury) Kashkari to perform some sort of mathematical voodoo to justify it:


Andrew Ross Sorkin


#politics #men