Quotes About Ideals

Until this episode, many Americans had believed that their soldiers were different from others, operating on a higher moral plane because their cause was good.

Pitiless class warfare formed the core of Lenin's thought—the

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die." - Steven Biko

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

Steven Armstrong: You still don't get it. I'm using war as a business to get elected... so I can end war as a business! In my new America, people will die and kill for what they BELIEVE! Not for money. Not for oil! Not for what they're told is right. Every man will be free to fight his own wars!

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

I thought the irreducible requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government, and a strong national defense.

Loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they too, fade away.

iar iubirile sunt ca imperiile: dac? piere ideea pe care au fost întemeiate, pier È™i ele odat? cu ea.

Franz could not accept that the fact that the glory of the Grand March was equal to the comic vanity of its marchers.

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.

You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.

Those are the liberals who don't want to win. Those are the liberals who are in love with noble defeats, and I'm sick and tired of noble defeats.

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.

To one point of view war meant boom times, intense activities, and good money in the pocket; to another it meant slow death for sacred American ideals. And to still another it meant personal opportunity, with sure advantage coming to him who was canny enough to play the angles correctly.

The price of purity is purists.

Art reveals the artist's inner self. Art reveals a man's ideals, what he values. Anyone with that much reverence, that much passion for the nobility of the human spirit, could only be a man who shares my passion for life.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by the ideals of our 40th president and became a Republican.

Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world relevance to them.

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.