Quotes About Ideals

When I was still a child, there was the Metaxis, a Fascist Youth Movement in which all subteenagers and teenagers were obligatory members, where they tried to imbue us with two ideals - nationalism and Christianity.

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

The idea of developing football and winning trophies at Real Madrid does not fall in line with how I see football.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

I trusted the American justice system too much, and shared that trust with people from European countries. We all have an idea about how the democratic system works.

For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.

I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he comes around and his name is, like, Steve, what are you supposed to do?

Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.

Brood, you and I, we have fought the Malazans as liberators in truth. Asking no coin, no land. Our motives aren't even clear to us – imagine how they must seem to the Empress? Inexplicable. We appear to be bound to lofty ideals, to nearly outrageous notions of self-sacrifice. We are her enemy, and I don't think she even knows why.

Imperfect. We can never match the ideals set before us. That is the burden of mortality.

They exist in some Platonic realm, along with abstract concepts like truth and justice.

The only people who aren't hypocrites are those whose morals are so twisted, whose consciences are so seared, that they don't believe in any ideals higher than those they actually live out.

At one time, he had been prepared to sacrifice the boy, but Daniel believed the reality of Shemyaza, as an ideal, and had forgiven him for the deeds of Peveral Othman.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

If a girl you're on a date with expresses ideals similar to those expressed by social justice bullies, end the date.

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.