Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. — John Boehner Copy Share Image
I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works. — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch. — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
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
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
At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities. — Clarence H. Burns 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
The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If the corrupt Jordanian monarchy were overthrown, it would be the ideal opportunity to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the West Bank… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
First, there's the job - where the goal is simply to earn a living and support your family. Then there's the career… — Robert Bella Copy Share Image
When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
I think that the ideal of young womanhood as it's seen in pop culture specifically is a really kind of vapid, conceited,… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I'm talking of the idea, basically very widespread in America, that the less government the better, which is obviously being used to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
There are no utopia jobs on this earth, .. There's nobody out there that can say, 'I've got the ideal job and… — Chan Gailey Copy Share Image
To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people… — Laozi Copy Share Image
In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest. — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity. — George Sand Copy Share Image
blind wantons like the gulls who scream And rip the edge off any ideal or dream. — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all. — Solon Copy Share Image
The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances. — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
