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 | Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas? — Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953, Soviet leader 14 likes |
 | Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 14 likes |
 | No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 12 likes |
 | A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 8 likes |
 | In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 8 likes |
 | A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 7 likes |
 | Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 6 likes |
 | Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 6 likes |
| To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 4 likes |
 | A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 3 likes |
| At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 2 likes |
| My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 2 likes |
 | Every ideology is contrary to human psychology. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 2 likes |
 | Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 2 likes |
 | He who kills out of selfishness kills a little. Out of ambition, a lot. From ideology, monstrously. |
 | Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality. |
 | There are no ideas, there are only people who carry the ideas, and they get the height of those who carry them. |
 | Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology. |
 | Constitutions are intended to preserve practical and substantial rights, not to maintain theories. |
 | Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on. |
 | The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness. |
| There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society. |
 | Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. |
 | You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you. |
 | That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos. |
 | Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future. |
 | Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. |
 | All ideas that triumph are doomed. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism |
| I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries. |
| Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence. |
 | Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism. |
