Quotes About Ideals

There are only two types of people in this world: those who die for freedom and those who died for their religions. Both are considered martyrs.

Have I placed more value on my status or title than on my character? What perceptions do I have about myself, other people, and the world? Are they aligned with my purpose? Do they reflect the values I claim to have? What is my true nature, apart from my reputation? What values will I refuse to deny because, to do so, I would violate my ideals and ethics?

This is the tragedy of the postmodern age. The things that matter most in life, that are necessary for a humane society—ideals like moral freedom, human dignity, even loving our own children—have been reduced to nothing but useful fictions. They are tossed into the attic, which becomes a convenient dumping ground for anything that a materialist paradigm cannot explain.

To love human beauty is to love something whose very existence is doomed. Love should be based on permanence. On solid, secure things.....Love of God. Love of good deeds. Love of country and family. Love of ideas.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

I was the symbol of justice in the court of the oppressor, the representative of the great ideals of freedom,

As the appearance of our world is determined by the particular state with which we are fused, so may we determine our fate as individuals by fusing our imaginations with ideals we seek to realise. On the distinction between our states of consciousness depends the distinction between the circumstances and conditions of our lives. Man, who is free in his choice of state, often cries to be saved from the state of his choice.

That he produced the quintessential Bauhaus object is evidence that the ideals of the school were as they purported to be—capable of transcending all that was European, going beyond what was unique to a single culture, and spreading across the map of the entire world.

With the rise of modern scientific (or 'rational') knowledge religion is, for the first time, challenged by the disparate claims of other life-orders (Lebensordnungen)... a polytheistic and disordered world of competing values and ideals... the economic, political, aesthetic, erotic and intellectual, which, with the onset of modernity, separate out into relatively autonomous realms (the process of Eigengeseztlichkeit) with their own value-spheres (Wertsphären).

In May 1919 Berle, assuming the stagy veneer of cynicism of a disappointed crusader, wrote his father, "I have come to the conclusion that no statement of ideals by anybody will ever get any reaction from me again. If I can trust myself I shall be happy; if I trust anyone else I shall be a fool.

Educated middle-class people such as the young Adolf Berle had been raised on the idea that American civilization was at heart one of small-town merchants and independent farmers. Now

Every individual with "ideals" is a potential murderer.

Wir wollen hier auf Erden schon das Himmelreich errichten'. Aber welches denn Heine? Das sozialistische Paradies, von dem sie in der Konsumgesellschaft träumen, oder die Konsumgesellschaft, von der sie im sozialistischen Paradies träumen?

More repulsive than the future which progressives unintentionally prepare is the future they dream of.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilisation were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. Fain would we await the time when due respect shall be paid to our art and ideals.

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of -- the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

La guerra duró tres años. La República cayó en la primavera de 1939, y con ella no solo cien mil soldados republicanos y cinco mil voluntarios extranjeros, sino los sueños y esperanzas de una gran parte de la humanidad.

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.

I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Neither secular progress nor secular progressives have brought the West where they once promised. Nor can they.

They scolded us for not having any real hopes or real ambitions, but if we were to pursue our true ideals, would these people watch and guide us along the way?