Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.” — Kristen Heitzmann Copy Share Image
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest. — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt,… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region. — Nicolas Maduro Copy Share Image
We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation,… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuild your ideals too. Rebuild the… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his… — David Packard Copy Share Image
We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
People don't want to think... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing… — Alice Miller 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
The most difficult part, when you decide to make running a part of your life style, is the basic initial commitment. Everybody… — Bill Rodgers Copy Share Image
I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The deepest bonds of unity are forged through the trial of competing ideals that have compatible values. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image