Ideologue Quotes

“As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.”
― Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice

“He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.”
― William F. Buckley, God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

“The village schoolmaster took us for instructive walks ('what you hear is the sound of a scythe being sharpened' ; 'that field there will be given a rest next season ';'oh, just a small bird...no special name '; 'if that peasant is drunk, it is because he is poor ') 71”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

“Tell a pragmatist a lie, and they will become angry.

Tell an ideologue the truth, and they will become angry.”
― J.Adam Snyder

“Unlike today's ideologues, whom I would call single-minded if mind came into it at all, I have no fear of the state.”
― Alan Bennett, Keeping On Keeping On

“The quirky flavourings of the idiosyncratic ideologue ultimately drowned in the ketchup of redheaded twins and nipples that go spung.”
― Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

“Persuasion and coercion are mutually exclusive. Freedom to persuade does include freedom to persuade by coercion. It also does not include persuasion for coercion. The armchair ideologue who preaches coercion is as guilty of coercion as one who coerces after such "peaceful" persuasion.”
― R. N. Prasher