Quotes About Ideals

He had a very young man's belief in the absolute rightness of his own cause and the absolute wrongness of everyone else's.

Hard, sharp, ticks. I hate them. Measuring thought, infinite space, by cogs and wheels. Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that — I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much — so very much to learn.

I am learning how to compromise the wild dream ideals and the necessary realities without such screaming pain.

As long as men have ideals, as long as they are vulnerable, there is this power to create a dream for them.

Bir yerlerde, biri, beni az?c?k da olsa anl?yor mu, az?c?k da olsa seviyor mu? Bütün çaresizliÄŸimle, ideallerimle, her ÅŸeyimle -hayat? seviyorum. Ama bu çok zor ve öÄŸreneceÄŸim daha çok, çok ÅŸey var. Galiba zaman zaman deliriyorum.

But the Great Romance is the root of our stories, stories that confront us with the eternal ideals. Love. Beauty. Hope. The greatest gifts. The very heart of Elyon. Do you understand?" "Um . . . actually it sounds a bit abstract." "Ha! The opposite, Thomas! Do you know why we love beautiful flowers? Because we love beauty!

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

The Treachery of the Intellectuals.

Cada vez somos más los que creemos menos en la utilización del humanismo para el nirvana estereofónico de mandarines y de estetas.

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

If every man and woman were encouraged to address their own needs and their own issues and faults, we would have a society filled with wisdom rather than a society filled with ideals.

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

There were times at Harvard when I actually longed to hang out with a few more Trotskyists, rather than yet another set of future consultants and investment bankers. At least the Trotskyists cared about the important stuff.

The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us.

creedal, built around the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity

Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

Perhaps we would be able to understand the founding of the United States differently, I thought, if we explained it not only in terms of political conflict within the Anglo-American community or the working out of Revolutionary ideals, but as a consequence of the forty-year-long effort to subject the Ohio Country, and with it the rest of the Transappalachian west, to imperial control.

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can; and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements... and into dreams that we can make come true.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Then his proud bearing, his manners, his elegance, his good looks — and who could be altogether insensitive to them? — powerfully suggested to me that here at last I had found someone who came up to my ideal of a friend.

Die Partei weiß genau, daß sie nur jene zu fürchten hat, welche die Ideale ernst nehmen, die sie zu verkörpern vorgibt.

Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them.

The law is not something holy, son. It's just a reflection of the ideals of those lucky enough to be in charge.