Ideological Supremacy Quotes

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

To become a successful hegemon, it helps to be both very rich and very big.

Ideas control the world.

It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.

We will convert the entire world to Islam with our logic. We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories.

Hamas murders not only Israelis, but also Palestinians whose political stance is different from that which its group promotes; that is, its radical religious outlook in which Islam is the solution to the world's problems.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Other totalitarian systems were defeated or simply crumbled with age…Only Communist systems prevail.

There are certain catchwords which have a marvelous charm to calm the breast political, a magic power to levitate the mind captivated by them, out of the regions of mere argument and recognition of facts. Such a hold do these words and the deified abstractions they cover have on the average man of the nineteenth century, that they and they alone are worshipped as the ultimate manifestation of goodness, beauty, and truth. To be opposed to these abstractions is to be condemned as blasphemous against the first principles of rectitude, moral and political.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

What Gramsci is all about is hegemony: you win the battle of ideas and it dominates.

For the anointed, it is desperately important to win, not simply because they believe that one policy or set of beliefs and values is better for society, but because their whole sense of themselves is at stake. Given the high stakes, it is not hard to understand the all-out attacks of the anointed on those who differ from them and their attempts to stifle alternative sources of values and beliefs, with campus speech codes and “political correctness” being prime examples of a spreading pattern of taboos. Here they are not content to squelch contemporary voices, they must also silence history and traditions—the national memory—as well.

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

American ideals are superior to countries all across the world.

Power, before it comes from arms or wealth, emanates from ideas.

Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

To an imagination of any scope the most far-reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas.

The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.

No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens....spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.