Karl Manheim Quotes

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

It's a law of our natures, especially when the political fit is on us, to applaud where we already approve, and deride where we don't.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

The deputies have expressed their confidence in me, but I have no confidence in them.

There are only two kinds of politics. They are not radical or reactionary, or conservative and liberal, or even Democratic and Republican. There are only the politics of fear and the politics of trust.

The political tendencies of the various social classes are based on a correct practical instinct.

You cannot fight a people who are fighting for an ideology with no ideas of your own.

Neoconservatives believe that we can only be defined by having an enemy.

Every intellectual attitude is latently political.

… the politically engaged will tend also to be the most closed-minded.

Donald Rumsfeld and Nelson Rockefeller were put on this planet to piss each other off.

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

They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.