Quotes About Ideals

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.

People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite--but they all worship money.

The word communist + a large bonfire + a collection of dead letters + the suffering of her mother + the death of her brother = the Führer

His first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible. He planted them day and night, and cultivated them. He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... it was a nation of farmed thoughts.

Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.

Ever since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, America has manifested a schizophrenic personality on the question of race. She has been torn between selves - a self in which she has proudly professed democracy and a self in which she has sadly practiced the antithesis of democracy. The reality of slavery, has always had to confront the ideals of democracy and Christinanity.

In a country supposedly dedicated to the ideals of market economics, arguably the most important social function of finance Ã¢â'¬â€œ lending for home purchase Ã¢â'¬â€œ had become almost completely nationalized.

See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...

See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals . . .

Lorde asks us to do the more difficult and radical work of imagining what our realities might look like if masculinity were not the ideal to which we aspire, if heterosexuality were not the ideal to which we aspire, if whiteness were not the ideal to which we aspire.

But, like the rest of mankind, we lived our lives unconscious as children, full of imagination, ideals, and illusions, and then we awoke; it was all over.

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

Our unconscious ideals cause us to sacrifice our true lives to a beautiful chimera, a haunting dream, a compelling illusion.

Ihm dröhnte der Kopf von den revolutionären Sprüchen, mit denen sowohl die Schwestern als auch die Ärzte ihn in jeder wachen Stunde eindeckten.

Bless all the women of this world who nurture our heritage while too many man rush off to kill for ideals that might now be deeply and personally held, but will often be viewed as repugnant by later generations.

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.