Quotes About Ideals

I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals.

A la mayoría le importan poco los ideales o la integridad. Lo que anhela es exhibirse. Cuanto más horribles son las contorsiones mentales, mayor es el deleite y los bravos de la masa.

The Communist dogma that the end justifies all means was also doing much harm. It had thrown the door wide open to the worst human passions, and discredited the ideals of the Revolution. The

Many people who have progressively lowered their personal standards in an attempt to win social acceptance and life's comforts bitterly resent those of philosophical bent who refuse to compromise their spiritual ideals and who seek to better themselves.

and following your ideals is the only thing worth dying for.

Belief passes, but to have believed never passes.     18

Aunque el ideal terrenal del socialismo y el comunismo se haya derrumbado, los problemas que este ideal intentaba resolver permanecen: se trata de la descarada utilización social del desmesurado poder del dinero, que muchas veces dirige el curso de los acontecimientos. Y si la lección global del siglo XX no produce una seria reflexión, el inmerso torbellino rojo puede repetirse de principio a fin. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, en New York Times 28 de noviembre de 1993

le prime cose che Hélène percepiva nella gente erano la mediocrità, la meschinità, la vigliaccheria, la gelosia, l'insicurezza, la paura; forse perché quei sentimenti erano presenti in lei, li individuava subito negli altri. Antoine invece era portato ad attribuire al prossimo intenzioni nobili, motivazioni di valore, ideali, come se non avesse mai sollevato il coperchio di un'anima per scoprire fino a che punto puzzava e brulicava di vermi.

While still young, Walter was fired for organizing a rally for Norman Thomas of the Socialist Party. When, in 1931, Henry Ford sold the production equipment of the Model T to the Soviet Union, Walter and Victor went over to teach Russian workers how to run assembly lines.

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

Our ideals are our better selves.

But American group blindness abroad is also rooted in some of our noblest ideals: tolerance, equality, individualism, the power of reason to triumph over irrational hatred, and the conviction that all men are united by their common humanity and love of liberty.

I don't know why so many of our ideals were stamped out like cigarette butts when we believed in them so furiously. Perhaps we were not furious enough.

On croit mourir pour la patrie ; on meurt pour des industriels

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

you'll have to forgive me, darling, I am old-fashioned, I believe in General Motors and the clarity of the gods . . .

The people that elected Donald Trump are Americans. They are every bit as entitled to weigh in on who should lead as any of us. The fact that they disagree with the values some of us hold dear is the point - America has always been about a battle of ideas that plays out over time.

The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.

Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

As much as I preach self-love, it's so hard for me to love myself. It's really hard, and it's just about building a good network of people and, in this case, a good network of artists. Trying to live your ideals as best as you can.