Quotes About Ideals

I want it to serve as a reminder of the terrible human consequences of Mao's dictatorship and of how good and talented people living under his regime were forced to violate their consciences and sacrifice their ideals in order to survive.

The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.

I wasn't sure. In those days I still held wholesomeness to be suspect.

The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society on a full use of the earth's resources; they did not aim to use the whole nature of man; they did not intend him to think out the full expression of his desires. Democracy is a turning point upon those ideals in a pursuit, at first unconsciously, of the richest life that men can devise for themselves.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

It is possible that people who share core values will make choices along the same lines.

I ran as a Democrat. I am a Democrat. And, frankly, the values that I hold, I think, are consistent with the values of the Democratic Party. In fact, I think they are the values shared by the majority of Floridians.

The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.

I'm in a left-wing government, unashamedly... but I also want to work with people from the Right who commit to the same values.

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

The Olympic Games are a global celebration of our hopes, our ideals and our values.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea.

It might not even be that great to marry your ideal. Probably, once you attained your ideal, you got bored and wanted another.

The greatest minds never realise their ideals in any matter;

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.