Quotes About Ideals

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

Conflict, of course, comes about because of the misuse of power and the clash of ideals, not to mention the inflammatory activities of unscrupulous and bigoted leaders. But it also arises, tragically, from an inability to understand and from the powerful emotions which, out of misunderstanding, lead to distrust and fear.

Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

Modern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founders' than any other agency in the world.

Loving comfort, risking little, terrified by the thought of change, (the middle class') aim is to establish a materialistic civilization which will banish threats to its complacency. It has conventions, not ideals; it is washed rather than clean. Thus the final degradation of the Baconian philosophy is that knowledge becomes power in the service of appetite.

Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time- while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

I would hope your beliefs would be your beliefs.

Bob Moses had learned what was needed to make dreams become realities. He had learned the lesson of power. And now he grabbed for power with both hands. To free his hands for the grab, he shook impatiently from them the last crumbs of the principles with which he had entered public service and for which, during his years of idealism, he had fought so hard.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old

There are no two things as important to us in life and in art as being threatened and being saved. What are ideals of form for if we aren't going to be made to fear for them? All our ingenuity is lavished on getting into danger legitimately so that we may be genuinely rescued.

Diane tenía una idea, un concepto de cómo debería ser la vida, el matrimonio, que no coincidió nunca con lo que tuvimos. En ese sentido le fallé.

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

Era como si todos los ideales y los valores se fundieran bajo el peso del dinero, disolvente universal. Dinero, dinero, dinero. La falsa fungibilidad del dinero, la idea de que se puede comprar el sentido, o la vida.

Aucun grand mouvement qui veut transformer le monde ne tolère le sarcasme ou la moquerie, parce que c'est une rouille qui corrode tout.

We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.