Althusser, Louis

"The bourgeoisie maintains hegemony not through force alone but through ideological consent."

"Philosophical thought must be grounded in material conditions of production."

"The question of truth cannot be separated from the question of power and ideology."

"History is a process of struggles for ideological and material dominance."

"We cannot transcend ideology by thought alone; we must act materially."

"The reproduction of the social order depends on the reproduction of ideology."

"Art that denies its own ideological conditions remains trapped in ideology."

"Consciousness cannot be the starting point for revolution; it is its product."

"The school system functions to distribute individuals into social positions hierarchically."

"Ideology is 'eternal,' not because it cannot be overcome but because society requires representation."

"To be human is to be the bearer of ideology; this is an anthropological fact."

"The state is not simply an instrument but a relation of force structured ideologically."

"Every cultural product bears the traces of the social relations in which it was produced."

"The revolution will not be accomplished through ideological critique alone."

"Structures of feeling in art express the lived experience of ideological contradictions."

"The transition from one social formation to another is fundamentally a transformation of ideology."

"To read literature is to trace the operation of ideology in textual form."

"The family reproduces both patriarchal and capitalist ideology simultaneously."

"Philosophy must descend from theory to engage with actual social struggles."

"Ideology naturalizes the contingent; it presents historical formations as eternal necessities."

"The intellectuals' role is not to lead the working class but to work in solidarity with it."

"Capitalism requires ideological forms to legitimate its relations of exploitation."

"The critique of ideology is itself an ideological practice; this is its paradox."

"Art can be revolutionary only when it breaks from the naturalization of capitalist relations."

"We are subjects before we are individuals; subjectivity is an ideological production."

"The working class is the revolutionary subject because of structural necessity, not moral superiority."

"To understand contemporary society, we must analyze the overdetermination of ideological structures."

"Freedom under capitalism is always a freedom already inscribed in ideology."

"The struggle for hegemony is fundamentally a struggle over meaning and representation."

"Ideology interpellates us as unified subjects while we are actually fragmented and contradictory."