Quotes About Ideals

We learn a little more about the world each day; this shapes our ideals and, more often than not, ensures these ideals are constantly changing.

Discipleship is based not on devotion to abstract ideals, but on devotion to a person, the Lord Jesus Christ;

To follow Jesus today is to follow a madman according to the ideals of present day civilization. We have the idea that our civilization is God-ordained, whereas it has been built up by ourselves. We have made a thousand and one necessities until our system of civilized life is as cast iron, and then we apologize to the Lord for not following Him.

Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living. He wraps it up in the rose-coloured optimism of Progress (which no one actually believes in), he masks it with literature, he crawls behind the shelter of ideals so as not to see anything. But

Nada hay entre estos petimetres sublevados que denote el dolor social, ni la ambición justa y racional, ni la convicción política, ni los ideales de un futuro».

La película habría de filmarse en las vísperas de la elección de 1960, en medio de una ferviente fiebre anticomunista producida por el triunfo de la Revolución cubana y Wayne dejó clara su posición: quería una historia que pudiera «vender el ideal estadounidense a los países amenazados por la dominación comunista» y en el film se repite varias veces la frase «soportar la opresión o rendirse

What's crucial about Rousseau, and many of his ideological successors, is that politics was always personal for him, unlike those whom Tocqueville faulted for indulging abstract theories.

According to the "Cult of True Womanhood," a popular phrase during those years, a true woman possessed four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity.

Yersin không tin l?y m?t giây vào m?y cái ?i?p khúc cách m?ng. Gi?t ng??i ?? nuôi s?ng nh?ng gi?c m?.

When the faith dies, the culture dies, the civilization dies, the people die.

Ideals, my girl," she says. "Always easier to believe in than live." "But if you don't at least try to live them," Bradley says, "then there's no point in living at all.

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals. When a man has loved literature as I loved it at twenty, he cannot be satisfied at twenty-six to give up his early passion, even at the bidding of implacable necessity.

Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

Politics is not about money.

The Dadaist movement was born from the despair over the egregious death and destruction of World War I and the zealous nationalism that led to it. The Dadaists' goal, according to an early manifesto, was to "remind the world that there are people of independent minds—beyond war and nationalism—who live for different ideals." After

There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them.

Race and class divisions, power imbalances, anti-intellectualism, anti-democratic leanings, and widespread poverty—not to mention Ponzi schemes—once we saw them as glitches in a country built on high ideals. The Great Man showed us otherwise. The flaws we had called incidental were underpinnings. They comprised a grand tradition, present always.

If you reach the age of thirty-seven in a country like Denmark, and have regular intervals free of pharmaceuticals, haven't committed suicide, and haven't completely sold out the tender ideals of your childhood, then you've learned a little about facing adversity in life.

material motivations for murder (in fact, I contend that they were secondary to ideological motives).

The conservative society accepts that rebellion and bad behaviour are natural and must be curbed. The liberal society requires all its citizens to be perfectly balanced, conforming to its ideals and aims with a happy heart and a willing mind