Quotes about Ideological Significance

Martin Amis

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

Dylan Thomas

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

E. J. Dionne Jr.

We’re not very good at policy making any more, but we are good at symbolism. So we do a lot of symbols.

Edward L. Ayers

They can't just tell everybody else to ignore all the other meanings that it's accrued..

Many believe that the Confederate flag symbolizes bravery and honor in battle, and therefore should be flown even in state government facilities as these are values which our governments hold. And that is true, but the same symbol also connotes, slavery, murder, racism, treason, hate, family destruction, brutality, and torture. Southern whites tend to acknowledge the bravery and honor but ignore the negative symbols. Most other Americans acknowledge the negatives but many tend to ignore the positive virtues.

Michael Polanyi

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Lena Headey

Nothing's ever allowed to just be entertaining. We have to talk about it.

Aleksandar Hemon

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

Michael Rocard

The political value of a word must be measured not in terms of its linguistic coherence but in the way people use it.

Ideological Significance Quotes