In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. ~By Noam Chomsky ~
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values. ~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict. ~By Daniel Barenboim ~
Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces. ~By Christopher Dawson ~
Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents. ~By Ron Lewis ~
But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes. ~By Robert Shea ~
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. ~By Lucy Maud Montgomery ~
As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks. ~By David Horowitz ~
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. ~By Ralph Nader ~
A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country. ~By Laisenia Qarase ~
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. ~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed. ~By Bill Frist ~
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. ~By Gordon Getty ~
I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything! ~By Stephen Baldwin ~
Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. ~By Walt Disney ~
There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians. ~By Mike McCready ~
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. ~By Hermann Hesse ~
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. ~By Helen Thomas ~
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold. ~By Andrew Sullivan ~
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans. ~By Billy Bragg ~
President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation. ~By William L. Jenkins ~
Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." ~By Henrik Ibsen ~
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. ~By William Osler ~
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. ~By Harold Nicolson ~
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. ~By Bertrand Russell ~
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. ~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals. ~By Juliette G. Low ~
I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that. ~By David Lloyd ~
Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. ~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ~By Anne Frank ~
The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago. ~By George Lucas ~
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them. ~By Mae West ~
Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music. ~By Michelle Shocked ~
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. ~By Lester B. Pearson ~
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. ~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. ~By Anne Frank ~
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world. ~By Sai Baba ~
But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain. ~By Jeff Miller ~
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. ~By James Naismith ~
Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals. ~By Ali Hoseini Khamenei ~
Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals. ~By Ralph Bunche ~
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether. ~By Marian Anderson ~
But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained? ~By Henry Campbell Bannerman ~
But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals. ~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. ~By Karl Kraus ~
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity. ~By Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. ~
It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals. ~By Martin Sheen ~
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism. ~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising. ~By Norman Douglas ~
Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand. ~By Aly Khan ~
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. ~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self. ~By George Grosz ~
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world. ~By Major Taylor ~
I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America. ~By Leah Ward Sears ~
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. ~By Agnes Repplier ~
Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance. ~By Barbara Castle ~
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ~By Samuel Ullman ~
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. ~By Carl Schurz ~
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. ~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement. ~By David Axelrod ~
The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals. ~By Harold Ford ~
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians. ~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. ~By Barack Obama ~
Our ideals are our better selves. ~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. ~By Naomi Wolf ~
These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with. ~By Rob Morrow ~
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. ~By Lester B. Pearson ~
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. ~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. ~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world. ~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God. ~By William Howard Taft ~
Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service. ~By Barbara Castle ~
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on. ~By Anna Howard Shaw ~
Ideals are the worlds masters. ~By J. G. Holland ~
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline. ~By Kamisese Mara ~
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ~By Jim Ryun ~
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals. ~By Jonathan Lethem ~
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future. ~By Alberto Moravia ~
Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms. ~By Ron Paul ~
In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools. ~By Mark Foley ~
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching. ~By Roger Nash Baldwin ~
Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations. ~By Guy Verhofstadt ~
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. ~By Woodrow Wilson ~
The great artist is a slave to his ideals. ~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers. ~By C. S. Forester ~
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. ~By Susan B. Anthony ~
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~By Robert Smithson ~
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level. ~By Alexander Haig ~
If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe. ~By James Talent ~
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. ~By Walt Disney ~
An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. ~By David E. Price ~
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world. ~By John Doolittle ~
Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." ~By Henrik Ibsen ~
Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected. ~By Marilyn French ~
An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength. ~By Adam Schiff ~
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. ~By Carroll Quigley ~
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice. ~By Garet Garrett ~
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