By ideology I mean a body of systematic and rigid dogma by which people seek to understand the world — and to preserve or transform it.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917-2007) American historian, author, social critic
“The One Against the Many,” Paths to American Thought, ed. Schlesinger and Morton White (1963)

 
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