The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal. — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists… — John Walford 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
National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods).… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
If you have an ideal world, your actions should follow suit. And that will sort of hopefully spread. — Tyler Blackburn Copy Share Image
The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition,… — Claude M. Bristol Copy Share Image
There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life.… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel I have more faith in European ideals than some of my British or French friends. For them, it's a… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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