Quotes About Ideals

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.

Female nudes were not meant to titillate the viewer with their sensuality but to give physical form to abstractions such as ideal beauty or chaste love.

Verdugos de ideales afligieron la tierra, En un pozo de sombra la humanidad se encierra Con los rudos molosos del odio y de la guerra.

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

As we journey through the world, we must inevitably encounter meanness and selfishness. As we fight for our survival, the higher visions and ideals often fade. It is then that we need ladybirds! Contemplating that tiny creature, or the flower on which it rests, gives one the hope—better, the certainty—that there is more to life than interest rates, dividends, market forces, and infinite technology.

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

A tökéletességre törekvés kimerít, és nem változtat semmin. A tökéletesség eszmény. Márpedig minden eszmény elérhetetlen, sohasem valósulhat meg, mert akkor nem lenne többé eszmény. Az eszmény és a valóság között áthidalhatatlan, örök szakadék tátong. (A gróf)

On rêve d'un idéal, on le prie, on l'appelle, on le guette, et puis le jour où il se dessine, on découvre la peur de le vivre, celle de ne pas être à la hauteur de ses propres rêves, celle encore de les marier à une réalité dont on devient responsable.

A lot of people don't have opinions...they have weaponized ideals.

They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better. Such alluring, such perilous ideals!

As Gustave Flaubert said, "I defend the poor Republic but I don't believe in it.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

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.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.

We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.

It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are good at heart.

And yet not every sense of what's good and right can be trusted, for what else is war but two sides going to battle over what each thinks is right?

It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.