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Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outside itself. In other words, it is a sign. Without signs, there is no ideology.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and "historical tasks" is an actual or potential assassin.

Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious.

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed.

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.

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.

Our blight is ideologies -- they are the long-expected Antichrist!

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.