Quotes About Ideals

Barack Obama doesn't think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it'd be fine with him.

I have always had a horror of words that are not translated into deeds, of speech that does not result in action," Roosevelt recalled. "I believe in realizable ideals and in realizing them, in preaching what can be practiced and then in practicing it.

We have let an empty future that we propose to make by our own standards become the ideal over and against a real past that revealed to us what man really was and is: namely, a being open to wonder who did not create himsel for the world in which he dwells.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

We fight for and against not men and things as they are, but for and against the caricatures we make of them.

You can tell what's informing a society by what the tallest building is.

The myths and folktales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's own present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.

America has always understood that it is defined by what it stands against more than what it stands for.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

The other parties campaign for parliamentary seats, more or less. We campaign for our principles!

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.

The great protagonists are those who fight for their ideas and ideals despite the fact that they receive no recognition at the hands of their contemporaries.

Het is de taak van de propaganda, om aanhangers te werven; de taak van de organisatie is, om leden te maken. Hij, die verklaart, het eens te zijn met de idealen van de beweging, is aanhanger; hij die voor de beweging strijdt, is lid. De sympathie van de aanhanger wordt gewonnen door de propaganda. Het lid wordt er door de organisatie toe gebracht, om zelf mee te werken, teneinde nieuwe aanhangers te winnen, waaruit dan weer nieuwe leden kunnen groeien.

There is a cop who is both prowler and father: he comes from your block, grew up with your brothers, had certain ideals.

But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

I was never a hippy, per se.

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

It's so interesting, when you're a parent, you have these big ideals. Before I had kids, you imagine this sort of egalitarian society. You project this perfect world on the path you're going to set for your kids.

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

We were heady with ideals, drunk with hopes of our languorous lope into a future that had learnt from its past.

So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way...

The fact is, man has never stayed by a single ideal. The mass enthusiasm when you were young gave way to cool, rationalistic classicism. Today that's being drowned in turn by a kind of neoromanticism. God knows where that will lead. I probably won't approve. Regardless, new generations grow up. We've no right to freeze them into our own mold. The universe is too wide.

I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life's factors: culture, civilization, tradition, history, ideals, facts, physical conditions, one's mental state, the ecology, and so on.