Quotes About Ideals

Other men may thrill to the sight of Old Glory rippling in the breeze, but for me the library was a better symbol of what I had taken up arms to defend.

I ceased to find the prospect of becoming a manful-man repugnant. When manifested in football and fraternity pranks, this roughhousing seemed stupid and shallow, but now that it was for ideals that I could admire, I saw the appeal.

We live by the images of those we decide are heroes and gods.

Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration.

History's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell.

We're all idealists," said Lord Silverman, smoothing over the conflict like a good host. "That's why we're in politics. People without ideals don't bother. But we have to confront the realities of elections and public opinion.

atacó a los bolcheviques, no por tener los ideales equivocados, sino por tener los ideales correctos pero ser incapaces de vivir de acuerdo con ellos.

Pero lo primero es defender la revolución, por supuesto.

Elizabeth has told me many times that if she should become queen, it is her dearest wish that no Englishman should lose his life for the sake of his beliefs. I think that's an ideal worthy of a man's faith.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Lack is more in means, than in principles.

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.

We have only God on our side they have 'In God We Trust' on their side.

We are all pretty determined people, And like Americans tend to look at the place we live in as not only a place but also an idea we live in.

It matters not what you fight but what you fight for.

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

Amigos nada más, el resto es selva. Caí en la cuenta de que la gente más valiosa en mi vida es la que me ha empujado a fabricar unos ideales, puede que ficticios, pero tan hermosos que da gusto jugar a que existen, apostar por ellos

Maybe a captain more obsessed with strict protocol and formality would have been stalwart in hiding his feelings, but Riker didn't subscribe to such emotionally stunted ideals of manhood.

Anger is the deepest form of compassion, for another, for the world, for the self, for a life, for the body, for a family and for all our ideals, all vulnerable and all, possibly about to be hurt. Stripped of physical imprisonment and violent reaction, anger is the purest form of care, the internal living flame of anger always illuminates what we belong to, what we wish to protect and what we are willing to hazard ourselves for.

When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.

There is only one thing that remains to us that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life; but that is not the politician's way.