Ideological Persistence Quotes

Communism has not died. We naively thought in the '90s we had buried communism, but this is not true. It is not dead, and it will be coming back.

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

First impressions matter. Most people don't change their political views radically from the ones they first hold.

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.

That signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.

The left know they don't have any popular support for what they really believe. They do know that, folks. They may never admit that but they know it. That's why everything has to be forced - and tthey don't care, by the way. They don't care. I mean, the fact that what they believe in doesn't have popular support does not slow them down at all.

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.