John Avlon

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

Writer

Jordan Peterson

To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you're an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you're religious, there's a mystery left there.

Canadian Psychologist

Bret Stephens

People want leaders. Not ideologues. Not people whose life experiences have been so narrow that they've been able to maintain the purity of their youthful ideals. Not people whose principal contact with political life comes in the form of speeches and sound bites rather than decisions and responsibilities.

American Journalist

Ed Koch

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

American Politician

Jon Lovett

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

American Producer

Kenneth Clarke

Only an ideologue deals with the world as he would wish it to be, as opposed to the world as it is.

English Politician

Jason Whitlock

Far-left political ideologues want to reshape sports culture to their liking.

Birch Bayh

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

Janeane Garofalo

I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.

American Comedian

Megyn Kelly

Reflects a deep conviction and active promotion of a belief system, not a casual interest.

Belief Intensity

'Ideologue' is neutral; it describes commitment, not an insult.

Not Insulting

Often used in political, religious, or philosophical discussions to highlight strict adherence to beliefs.

Contextual Use

 So I spent about three years in this world. I talked to a lot of people. Some of them seemed to have no core beliefs at all. They just seemed to be betting, perfectly rationally, that if they wanted to make some money online or get some attention online, they should just be as outrageous as possible. But I talked to other people who were true ideologues.

Inside the bizarre world...

 Perhaps most clever of all, though, and least obvious, by flipping the data on its head, the researchers were able to deeply explore the coordination networks in Syria that were ultimately responsible for receiving and transporting the foreign fighters to the border. These were networks of mercenaries, not ideologues,

Shyam Sankar: The rise...

 though and least obvious by flipping the data on its head the researchers were able to deeply explore the coordination networks in Syria that were ultimately responsible for receiving and transporting the foreign fighters to the border these were networks of mercenaries not ideologues who were in

The rise of human-compute...

 to protect people being courted online by violent ideologues, whether they're Islamists, white supremacists or other violent extremists, with the goal of giving them the chance to hear from someone on the other side of that journey; to give them the chance to choose a different path.

How technology can fight...

 which extent they're building extension systems and so to large parts of the world these are not necessarily issues that relate to them as Danielle said on the other hand we you know there's an ideologue there's an ideology out there about this it's like you're either for

Food Security in an...

 And it probably is not instantly poisoning their minds or turning them into compulsive users, the way that some ideologues would have you believe. It's a rare person who doesn't see some pornography in their youth. By the time they're 18 years old,

How porn changes the way...

 become a clue to your secret inner evil. Maybe there's two types of people in the those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans. I favor humans over ideology, but right now, the ideologues are winning,

How one tweet can ruin...

 who still has that kind of way of seeing the world. The vast majority of economists -- it is so uncool to call yourself an ideologue of either camp. The phrase that you want, if you're a graduate student or a postdoc or you're a professor,

Adam Davidson: What we...

 that citizens of free societies -- actually, citizens of any society -- need humor as much as the air we breathe. This is why the extremists, the dictators, the autocrats and, frankly, all the ideologues of the world

A free world needs...

 one of the ideologues that inspired Osama bin Laden. "One has only to glance at its press films, fashion shows, beauty contests, ballrooms, wine bars and broadcasting stations." Memes.