Ideology

(206 votes)   There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

Theodor W. Adorno
1903-1969, German Philosopher, Sociologist, Music Critic

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(93 votes)   Our blight is ideologies -- they are the long-expected Antichrist!

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(89 votes)   Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(81 votes)   What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons -- reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.

Terry Eagleton
1943-, British Critic

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(77 votes)   Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

John Le Carre

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(74 votes)   Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

Rebecca West
1892-1983, British Author

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(68 votes)   Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

Kenneth Tynan
1927-1980, British Critic

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(68 votes)   Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outside itself. In other words, it is a sign. Without signs there is no ideology.

V. N. Volosinov

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