We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race. — Sarojini Naidu Copy Share Image
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for. — Robert C. Maynard Copy Share Image
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art. — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves... — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
You know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home. — Gene Hill Copy Share Image
We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on. — Ezra Hall Gillett Copy Share Image
Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
I believe that marriage has served society well, and I believe it is important to affirm that, that marriage between a man… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
“We will never find the perfect job, relationship, or situation. What we can do is search for happiness. Our ideals in life… — Ron Baratono Copy Share Image
A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that… — Mike Farrell Copy Share Image
I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false,… — Julian Beck Copy Share Image
You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
So many people are working in industries that don't inspire them, to pay the bills and survive. In an ideal world, everyone… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak… — Edwin J Delattre Copy Share Image
In the 60s there were a lot of things which were anarchistic. May-June '68 was riddled by anarchistic sentiments, dreams and ideals,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
No university ought to be merely a national institution…The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there… — Matthew Henson Copy Share Image
Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what… — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work… — David Bergland Copy Share Image
We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Whatever ideals we would impress upon others we must first have realized in ourselves.” — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
