All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Once you have seen and felt your ideal future, you will be ready and able to pay any price to get there. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Mandela was true to himself, to his people and his principles. He sacrificed everything because he was prepared to be true to… — Justin Chadwick Copy Share Image
At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities. — Clarence H. Burns Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice creates a dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith. — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval. — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
We talk of lost ideals, but perhaps they are not lost, only changed; when our ideal for ourselves and for our children… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or… — Mart Laar Copy Share Image
Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
I have no ideals. I have no will that the world should be any better or worse or anything... Because I know… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
No matter how advanced society becomes, institutionally or technologically, a house in which nature can be sensed represents for me the ideal… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
First and foremost, you do not have to live up to or emulate the lives of any of your predecessors. But at… — Yuri Kochiyama Copy Share Image
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The fact is, there is only one body ideal in fashion, and most likely, you don't have it. — Stacy London Copy Share Image
We meet failure only when we forget our goals, ideals and principles. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals. — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
