Ideologies Quotes

“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ”
― Wilhelm Reich

“When has this world not been in a state of war? There will always be competing ideologies. There will always be people fighting for narratives and what they believe is right. Peace is a myth. An illusion. There is always something brewing. The world is always at war. Or at least a part of it. People become Buddhas by choice, not because of their surroundings.”
― Abhaidev, Anant

“When has this world not been in a state of war? There will always be competing ideologies. There will always be people fighting for narratives and what they believe is right. Peace is a myth. An illusion.”
― Abhaidev, Anant

“An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you”
― Morris Berman

“Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

“The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies and agents of change. Conflicting ideas include political, social, legal, and ethical concepts. Agents of change include environmental factors, social pressure to conform, aging, and the forces inside us that made us into whom we are as well as the forces compelling us to be a different type of person.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Fleeing from isolation, lack of purpose, and loss of identity, the people flock toward all offerings that give the illusion of purpose and community, regardless of how moronic they may be. And that's what nationalism has in common with fundamentalism. They are both moronic offerings that give the illusion of community. I say illusion, because this community isn't real; these ideologies aren't about equitable participation, but on the contrary about the unveiling and fortification of social injustices.”
― Marc-Uwe Kling, QualityLand

“Sociologist Barry Glassner (1999) has documented many of the biases introduced by “If it bleeds, it leads” news reporting, and by the strategic efforts of special interest groups to control the agenda of public fear of crime, disease, and other hazards. Is an increase of approximately 700 incidents in 50 states over 7 years an “epidemic” of road rage? Is it conceivable that there is (or ever was) a crisis in children’s day care stemming from predatory satanic cults? In 1994, a research team funded by the U.S. government spent 4 years and $750,000 to reach the conclusion that the myth of satanic conspiracies in day care centers was totally unfounded; not a single verified instance was found (Goodman, Qin, Bottoms, & Shaver, 1994; Nathan & Snedeker, 1995). Are automatic-weapon-toting high school students really the first priority in youth safety? (In 1999, approximately 2,000 school-aged children were identified as murder victims; only 26 of those died in school settings, 14 of them in one tragic incident at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.) The anthropologist Mary Douglas (Douglas & Wildavsky, 1982) pointed out that every culture has a store of exaggerated horrors, many of them promoted by special interest factions or to defend cultural ideologies. For example, impure water had been a hazard in 14th-century Europe, but only after Jews were accused of poisoning wells did the citizenry become preoccupied with it as a major problem.
But the original news reports are not always ill-motivated. We all tend to code and mention characteristics that are unusual (that occur infrequently). [...] The result is that the frequencies of these distinctive characteristics, among the class of people considered, tend to be overestimated.”
― Reid Hastie, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making

“If our ideologies differ, please do not send a violent personal message in my inbox. This is worthless because my opinion changes on a daily basis.”
― Divya Gandotra Tandon

“Intolerance is born of ideological allegiance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“The West’s credibility as a reference for all things human rights related has waned and is now almost non-existent. The war on Gaza has cost them more than just weapons, it has set the West back hundreds of years and tarnished their image as the leaders of humanity.”
― Aysha Taryam

“Theories, philosophies, ideologies, all later, first realization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“We are all nonbinary people, for life is nonbinary.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Beyond Inclusion (The Sonnet)

It is not really inclusion that we must aim for,
Rather we must work to outgrow the need for inclusion.
It is not really global harmony that we must aim for,
We must outgrow the very term international relations.
It is not really a reform in policy that we must aim for,
Rather we must aim to outgrow the need for policy aids.
It is not really social awareness we must aim to advocate,
Rather we must be the living epitome of social oneness.
It is not a flea market of parties that we must aim to build,
Rather we must turn the very term partisanism obsolete.
It is not a junkyard of ideologies that we must aim to raise,
Absorbing good from all, let us stop being ideological elites.
Plenty of time we have wasted on arguments of philosophy.
Now let's go out on the streets and soil to get our hands dirty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“There is not much difference between an ideological dingus and septicemic fungus, both cause nothing but death and disease in society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“One world, one family, one life - that's the motto. This is not humanitarianism, this is not socialism, this is not humanism. You know what it is? It is the ism of no ism – it is the ism of life, love and living across all ism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“All have the right to ideology, but none has the right to division.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“Virtue No Ism (The Sonnet)

What is this obsession with ism before human!
Why are we still catering to ancestral stupidity!
Are we really gonna let their shortsightedness,
To define our capacity, character and destiny!
Some of them might have had the vision of unity,
Hence they spoke of peace and neighborly love.
But most lacked the sight to live beyond ism,
And we continue to prioritize ism over love.
No ideology has a monopoly over virtue,
Virtues are born of mind, not ideology.
Yet all ideologies try to codify virtue,
By doing so they only vilify all virtuosity.
All virtues are but the descendants of love.
To codify virtue is to ruin the universality of love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Wherever an ideology claims supremacy, there it breeds terrorism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“No ideology has a monopoly over virtue, virtues are born of mind, not ideology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“FOLLOW YOUR HEART, FOLLOW YOUR BEING
How do we come in contact with our heart and begin to see the truth? We need to follow our heart, we need to follow our own nature. We need to have the courage to listen to our heart. To follow ournature means to  learn to trust yourself. Hidden deep within ourselves is the silent voice of truth. If you become silent, you will be guided from within from the silent voice. To follow our nature is the only possibility to attain freedom. When all lies and conditions from society is removed, you will discover your essential nature. Your nature is to become God. To follow your nature is to follow your consciousness, but you have been told by the parent, the teachers. the priests and the politicians to follow ideologies, philosophies and religions - and not to follow your own nature. When you know your own inner voice, you will be free. if you listen to your  heart, no one can manipulate and control you again.
To become available to your inner nature is mediation. It is to become aware that there is source within you, from where God speaks to you.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, God is Everywhere: You are Divine, Everything is Divine

“Ism is the prison,
Ism is impediment.
Take the I beyond the ism,
And lo, you are sapient!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“We all live in the past. Your parents have given you a certain conditioning. The society has given you a certain conditioning, and to live in that conditioning is to live your life in a prison. The religions have forced you to be a Christian, a Hindu, a Mohammedan or a Buddhist, which are all conditionings. 
Meditation is a freedom from all these conditionings that parents, the society and the religions have forced on you. Unless you are free you will never be able to hear your own authentic inner voice. 
Your parents will tell you "do this and don't do this." The priests will goon creating guilt and shame in you. They will not allow you to be yourself.  Nobody in the world is really interested in anybody else being given the freedom to be himself or herself. Everybody is trying to impose their ideas and ideologies on others.  That is why humanity is in such misery and chaos. 
We have created an ugly world, where we have not allowed children to be themselves.  We have created a prison made of ideas, theologies and ideologies. You can think that you are free, but you are not free. We have to get rid of this prison. We have to uncondition ourselves, sothat we become free. It is first when the whole sky is ours that the whole existence is ours. When one realizes this, one just wants freedom, joy, silence,  awareness, truth and love. In that inner silence and freedom,the whole heritage of humanity becomes ours. Then we know that truth is within ourselves. 
My first book in English, The Silent Whisperings of the Heart, is dedicated to my parents, Essy and Sven, with the dedication: "My parents, who taught me what love and freedom are.” My whole childhood was an atmosphere and climate of love and freedom. An American astrologer said in an astrology  session in the United States that my mother seemed to be a very special  woman. She was so rebellious that the boys in elementary school held herdown and shot her in the foot with an air rifle.  Once when I was in high school, I wanted to  have a little parental conflict, and said to my mother that I would never go back to school again. My mother replied: I would never do that either. This atmosphere and climate of love and freedom made me always feel that I could be who I am. It also taught me early to listen to my inner true voice, which early began to guide me in life.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace

“God’s Word stores wonderful information and powerful ideologies for transformation.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes

“Don't take the lens for the landscape.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Ideologies draw sharp lines between good and evil, but individuals blur those lines with layered, often contradictory views.”
― Salil Jha

“While ideologies tend to divide the world into good and evil, individuals live in the complex space between, shaped by a mosaic of beliefs.”
― Salil Jha

“As in the case in many countries around the world, critics and judges rely on political ideologies to evaluate the "best." - Jacqueline Loss (in the Intro to Cuba)”
― Alane Mason, Literature from the "Axis of Evil": Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations

“Just because one side screws up royally, doesn't mean the other side is justified in its actions. Extremity always means someone is going to lose out and it opens the door to a dictatorship.”
― Kara Spain

“When you push people to the wall in your bid to silence them for standing up to or against your ideology—whether right or wrong—you risk losing them entirely. Worse still, you may create a new breed of monsters who will torment the very generation you meant to protect. Treat people with kindness always, for tables do turn.”
― Olawale Daniel