Ideological Framework Quotes

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

A movement without a vision is a movement without moral foundation.

I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.

An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.

Governments first decide on their interests and then seek the vocabulary most congenial to their policies.

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.

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.

You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.

I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you look in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules for - basic rules for a system of economics or politics.' If you look in the Oxford, it says that, and then it says... 'Despite - and people will hold these propositions despite events.'

Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

Ideas control the world.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Lincoln has no conception of his situation—much absorption in the details of office dispensation, but little application to great ideas.

What the people believe is true.

Mere analysis, that is the Party line, was … substituted for the raw, emergent movement of life itself. The psychology of human beings was descended not directly from experience but from a set of political theories.

This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as a new ideology at a stage in history when most of the major ideologies are gone, does not reflect the facts on the ground.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.