Robert E. Lane Quotes

Most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... [and] a body of sacred documents and heroes.

For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders.

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

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.

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.

Religion is just mind control.

I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

We want to represent the things we believe.

The contents of an ideology are not sacrosanct simply because they are couched in the cloak of a religion.

To me, religion is the reason there is so much conflict in this world, and I think it's just so unnecessary to believe in this blue-eyed, white-bearded, white-haired God.

We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.

Culture is a reflection of values.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.