Ideological Tension Quotes

I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher's class? No. No. It doesn't happen, 'cause there's no thought of getting along.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.

What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.

We will not sit at the same table with the communists. I will never talk to them

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

What I like is horror movies, including '80s slasher movies that politically I have all kinds of problems with. Which is an interesting balance, because I have this leftist puritan strain that, well, if you like something that goes against your politics, maybe you should train yourself not to like it. But I know that I like horror movies and that's what I watch when I get a moment.

Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.

Bigger Than His Party.

Competition in politics is just as important as competition in everything else.

I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.

This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.

Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.

My mind might be conservative, but at heart, I was always a socialist.

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

Nowadays, you suffer the same risks - ostracism, career loss, possible assault - for being perceived as racist that you would have encountered a century ago for daring to question racist ideology.

On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

Military force can't defeat ideology.

Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.