Quotes About Ideals

The female mind, though cruelly practical in daily life, cannot bear to hear ideals belittled in conversation, and Miss Schlegel was asked however she could say such dreadful things, and what it would profit Mr. Bast if he gained the whole world and lost his own soul. She answered, "Nothing, but he would not gain his soul until he had gained a little of the world.

Money: give Mr Bast money, and don't bother about his ideals. He'll pick those up for himself.

Some people never have anything except ideals.

A woman's image, and sometimes her soul, is moulded and unmoulded, shaped according to the regime's taste and used as a store mannequin to promote the prevailing political power's concept of the ideal female citizen. Every regime, without exception, starts building its ideal citizen by tampering with its women.

People like passion in politics.

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

Only ideals are dangerous.

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principals of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

The trouble with your ideals is that if you live up to all of them, you become impossible to live with.

It is precisely because we believe in democracy as a talisman, a heal-all, that we are prone to the disintegration of language that characterizes Life Under Compulsion. It

I was an anarchist punk, and I think, in many ways, I still am.

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process.

I believe in the ideals of America, in liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.

There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.

I believe in a core set of fundamental Republican values.

We have a battle over the fundamentals of our country.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal arts major scorned.

Ideals make reason inaccessible.

That's the difficulty in these times: ideals, dreams, and cherished hopes rise within us, only to meet the horrible truth and be shattered.

In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future.

If I were ever to grace the pages of 'Vogue,' I would want my image retouched because the audience is so vast. There is great vulnerability in being exposed to that many judging eyes. I feel no small amount of guilt over this willingness to surrender my ideals.