Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit. Mason Cooley
Ideology has very little to do with ‘consciousness’…It is profoundly unconscious. Louis Althusser
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos. Kenneth Tynan
Applied to politics, the terms ‘ideology’ and ‘ideologue’ have started to warp. It cannot be long before ‘idea’ goes the same way, and becomes almost entirely pejorative. The concepts that these words signify stand in opposition to pragmatism, the polite word for an entirely unprincipled and opportunist approach to politics, in which the sticking plaster of expediency is applied whenever necessary to injuries sustained in the normal rough-and-tumble of politics. Simon Heffer
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. Eugene Ionesco
Ideology is just an escape from thought. John Kenneth Galbraith
There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence. Theodor Adorno