Robert Greenwald Quotes

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.

It’s the confrontation with modernity that produces terrorism.

Ideology knows no boundaries.

The absolutists of contract are the real parents of revolution.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

Centrism is bogus.

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.

I am a radical.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.

Terror … is often the result of giving politics a sacred, absolute dimension.

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.