Ideals Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

— Octavio Paz

“Or society places a supreme value on control -- hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks "primitive cultures" and prides itself on supression of…

— Jim Morrison

“This is the only time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have. We aren't just fighting for our physical survival,…

— Max Brooks

“idealism mistakenly imputes a logic and rationality to culture”

— James Davison Hunter

“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the sea fearing man on the desert of…

— Carl Schurz

“Life is much richer and more complex than even the most perfect plans to make it better. It ultimately takes vengeance for attempts to…

— Mikhail S. Gorbachev

“The perfect society to which we aspire in theory may become a powerful enemy of the good society we can become in fact.”

— Mark Sagoff

“Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators?…

— Sinclair Lewis

“And all this is happening in the richest and freest country in the world, and in the middle of the 20th century. The subtle…

— james baldwin

“what is ideals? Deliverance from such a predicament can only come through the realization that one’s highest moral ideals are not necessarily synonymous with…

— Uranita book

“A dynamic force seems to be drawing first Western society, then the rest of the world, toward a state of relative indifferentiation never before…

— René Girard