Ideological Division Quotes

Politics consists wholly of a succession of unintelligent crazes, many of them so idiotic that they exist only as battle-cries and shibboleths and are not reducible to logical statement at all.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

My constant efforts are directed against ultras of all kinds.

The great religions are … tragically sources of ceaseless and unnecessary suffering. They are impediments to the grasp of reality needed to solve most social problems in the real world. Their exquisitely human flaw is tribalism.

Organized hatred needs a single target to serve political mobilization, so no distractions can be allowed.

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

Christianity has acquiesced in slavery and polygamy, has practically canonized war, has, in the name of the Lord, burnt heretics and devastated countries.

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?

Demagoguery is not unknown in American history.

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.

Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

… some parties think that only the rules laid down by their doctrines are the right ones.

Ronald Reagan made the denial of compassion in America respectable.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

The idea that Americans are more divided than ever, entrenched in ideological camps and unwilling to meet in the middle, is so pervasive that one hardly goes a single hour without hearing about it on a cable news show.

Under Mr. Corbyn, Labour are a shambles.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.

Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.

My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all.

The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not whether swords will have to be unsheathed we know not whether blood will have to be shed we know not whether it will be an armed conflict we know not. But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot lose.

In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

Avoid false choices driven by ideology.

There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.