Quotes About Ideals

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

We don't need a new idea; the idea is called America, and it still works.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the longer the tether of our slavery?

I do not feel that we should set up people as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.

Social action must be animated by a vision of a future society, and by explicit judgments of value concerning the character of this future society.

It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated ideals to accompany the resort to violence.

Di solito, più si sente la necessità di parlare degli ideali della democrazia, meno democratico è il sistema.

I do not pretend to know the answer to this question. But it seems clear that unless there is, in some form, a positive answer, the chances for a truly democratic revolution that will achieve the humanistic ideals of the left are not great.

To challenge the right of investors to determine who lives, who dies, and how they live and die—that would be a significant move toward Enlightenment ideals (actually the classical liberal ideal). That would be revolutionary.

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

The compulsion to reconsider the past through the ideals and beliefs of the present is constant and overwhelming. It allows for a sense of moral clarity and feels more enlightened. But it's actually just easier than trying to understand how things felt when they originally occurred.

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

Why do the impulsive notions of a would-be do-gooder always translate into the ideals of the next civilization?

I am an aristocrat, Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. I love liberty; I hate equality.

Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren't looking, alluring and ever out of reach. The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.

High-minded idiocy pitted against the power of coin.

El hombre, no obstante, ¡tiene la capacidad de vivir, incluso de morir, por sus ideales!

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

Still the future of civilization lies, he thought, in the hands of young men like that; of young men such as he was, thirty years ago; with their love of abstract principles; getting books sent out to them all the way from London to a peak in the Himalayas; reading science; reading philosophy. The future lies in the hands of young men like that, he thought.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.