Ideological Lens Quotes

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.

Everybody's got a worldview, whether they know they have it or they don't. They might even get it when they are little tiny kids. Suppose they get it when they are in college, which is often the case, or in high school, whatever. Everything they learn after that or every thing they see after that, they fit it into that worldview. And they are making coherence of what's good, what's bad, what will work, what won't work, what's noble, what's ignoble, and so on... all through this filter.

When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.

Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.