Ideological Adaptation Quotes

Political theories, once adopted, do not disappear so easily.

Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him.

I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.

Liberalism has never done as well as it thinks at resolving its own crises.

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

That's the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place.

Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional framework.

To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the doctrines and dogmas to which they have sworn their loyalty. Instead they rationalize, revise, and re-interpret them to meet new needs and new circumstances, all the while protesting that their heresy is the purest orthodoxy.

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.