It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.
Louis AlthusserIn truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.
Louis AlthusserIdeology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
Louis AlthusserRelations of production are first reproduced by the materiality of the processes of production and circulation. But it should not be forgotten that ideological relations are immediately present in these same processes.
Louis AlthusserIn the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.
Louis AlthusserWhatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology seems therefore to take place outside it. That is why those who are in ideology believe themselves by definition outside ideology: one of the effects of ideology is the practical denegation of the ideological character of ideology by ideology: ideology never says, 'I am ideological.'
Louis Althusser