Quotes About Ideals

Social conscience is a fashion, it changes every year.

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

Rather than adjust his expectations in the face of disappointment, he (Jefferson) tended to bury them deeper inside himself and regard the disjunction between his ideals and the worldly imperfections as the world's problems rather than his own.

Vision is not political rhetoric.

I think there is more opportunity now than ever before for women in politics if they will keep their ideals high and go in with the purpose of being of service rather than with the purpose of obtaining an office.

What is soft power? It is the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion or payments. It arises from the attractiveness of a country's culture, political ideals, and policies.

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

El revolucionario vedadero es guiado por gran sentimientos de amor.

Che is transformed into a hardened symbol of resistance, a symbol of the fight for what is just, of passion, of the necessity of being fully human, multiplied infinitely in the ideals and weapons of those who struggle. This is what the front men and their omnipotent handlers fear.

Dejeme decirie, a risego de parecer ridiculo, que el revolucionario verdadero esta guiado por grandes sentimientos de amor. Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Überhaupt setzt die literarische Bildung Maßstäbe, die in der Realität nicht ausgefüllt werden können; das Spielfeld wird zu weit gesteckt.

Kein Volk ist wahrhaft frei ohne die Freiheit seiner Nachbarn. Die Politiker belügen sich selbst und belügen die Bürger, sie nennen ihre Interessen Ideale, für diese Ideale, für Gold, für Land, für Erz, für Öl, für lauter tote Dinge sterben, hungern, verzweifeln die Menschen. Überall. Die Frage der Kriegsschuld verblaßt vor der Schuld des Kapitalismus.

Anche il generale Bonaparte servì a difendere la rivoluzione francese contro la reazione europea, ma nel difenderla la strozzò. Lenin, Trotsky e compagni sono di sicuro dei rivoluzionari sinceri, così come essi intendono la rivoluzione, e non tradiranno; ma essi preparano i quadri governativi che serviranno a quelli che verranno dopo per profittare della rivoluzione ed ucciderla. Essi saranno le prime vittime del loro metodo, e con loro, io temo, cadrà la rivoluzione.

Plato was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it—against reason—as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience…

Unfortunately, when academic ideals meet business realities, business realities usually win. Businesses are full of real people, with real strengths and weaknesses and limitations. These people can do only so much with the finite resources available in their organizations. Some things they just cannot do, whether for political reasons, lack of resources or inability.

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

The United States is truly remarkable, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beautifully expressed by the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution. We should feel good about our ideals, even when we don't quite manage to live up to them.

Our state is truly remarkable because we are leading this country with sound conservative principles. As long as we continue fighting for our ideals, we'll move forward.

I grew up on misogynist, devil-worshipping heavy metal music, and then it was groups like The Clash and Public Enemy that reminded me that there were a different set of ideas that could be expressed with great music.

No one should ever feel compelled to replace the development of and adherence to his or her own set of personal values and beliefs with an adherence to some partisan label.

I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.