To insist on any one notion of the future in political and philosophical debates risks turning it into an ideological instrument used to justify present policies.
Because Germans are like hawks, Landa explains, most cannot think like Jews, who are more like rats — a characterization that, of course, was a privileged metaphor and ideological instrument in the Nazi's campaign against European Jewry.
Vienna's Karl Marx Hof (roughly, "Karl Marx Court") is a rare example of architecture both as political instrument and ideological symbol – a building people would fight for, and against, with guns.
Austerity has always been an ideological decision and an instrument of class power.
Exemplars of the life of reason, they made philosophy "the humanizing quest for the eternal order, and hence it had been a pure source of humane inspiration and aspiration," until the moderns came along and debased it, making it a utilitarian "instrument" and an ideological "weapon".
It turned into a reliable instrument of partisan and ideological combat.
The party is at once an instrument of social control, a vehicle for ideological indoctrination, and the body from which the ruling group recruits its members.
In some cases where he has comforted families, a gunman acted out of ideological fervor, in others, personal demons, he said, but "the instruments of death were so similar".
Historically, Republican presidents have imposed strict ideological litmus tests on judicial appointees while wielding those appointments as instruments of presidential power.
Covenants have rarely been the actual instruments by which societies actually functioned for long, but they are extremely frequent as ideological foundations for sociopolitical legitimacy.
