Ideology Conflict Quotes

The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.

I'm very liberal in some ways, and then I'm very conservative in others. I once asked my grandpa, "Are you a Republican or a Democrat?" He said, "I'm a Democrat, but I'm saving up to be a Republican."

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

Conservatives are always looking for converts, whereas liberals are always looking for heretics.

I was a Socialist for two weeks but when a couple of Socialists assured me I had no right to think differently from any other Socialist and then quarreled with each other about what Socialism meant, I ran away.

Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. The second vision believes that religion is opium for the masses. It believes that eternal principles like truth, liberty, and democracy have no meaning beyond the whim of the state. And [Vladimir] Lenin spoke for them.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

The struggle between Communism and capitalism has been perverting people's analysis of social issues.

I don’t see any difference in killing a communist in North Carolina and killing a communist in Vietnam.