Georges Clemenceau 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.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

I don't believe in populism.

We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.

Ideology has consequences.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

Terror … is often the result of giving politics a sacred, absolute dimension.

The menace is ideology, the dogma of politics. It is a prison that makes the American experiment impossible.

I don’t have an ideology.

The war on terrorism is a war of ideas.

Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are extreme about, but that you are "extreme"—

I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.

The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side.

I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.

When ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

Centrism is bogus.

I am not a centrist.