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What persuades
men and women to mistake each other from time to time for
gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough
how human beings may struggle and murder for good material
reasons -- reasons connected, for instance, with their
physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may
come to do so in the name of something as apparently
abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by,
and will occasionally die for.
-- Terry Eagleton
1943-, British Critic
It is possible
to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to
drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon
proved this.
-- Alexander Herzen
1812-1870, Russian
Journalist, Political Thinker
There cannot
be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful
coexistence corrupts.
-- Jiang Qing
1914-1991, Chinese Politician
Our blight is
ideologies -- they are the long-expected Antichrist!
-- Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
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