Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to… — Wendell Berry
The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself. — Thomas Carlyle
The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and… — James A. Baldwin
Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously unlikely that, even… — Robert Nozick
I believe that marriage has served society well, and I believe it is important to affirm that, that marriage between a man and a woman… — George W. Bush
I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings… — John Stuart Mill
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only… — Ayn Rand
Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of… — Ellen Swallow Richards
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a… — Robert Reich
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's… — Anna Pavlova
We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to take it back… — Unknown Author
I have cherished the ideal a democratic and free society . . . it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And… — Daniel Boone
A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god. He is not… — Jose Mujica
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a… — Dorothy L. Sayers
There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals… — Milton Friedman
Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was… — Immanuel Wallerstein
When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage… — James Freeman Clarke
I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me,… — Adolf Hitler

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