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The cultification of an imperialist invasion of a foreign nation that Australia had no quarrel with is against all ideals of modern society.
— Scott McIntyre
She has no serious ideals at all-her sole aspiration seems to be to have a good time.
— L.M. Montgomery
The deepest bonds of unity are forged through the trial of competing ideals that have compatible values.
— Wes Fesler
Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.
— Swami Vivekananda
People imprison themselves.
— Bruce Crown
Find the ideal in something not ideal.
— Robert Denning
Discipleship is based not on devotion to abstract ideals, but on devotion to a person, the Lord Jesus Christ;
— Oswald Chambers
We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water. I
— Janet Fitch
Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America.
— Walt Disney
I don't believe in our politics, our way of thinking, believing, amusing ourselves; I don't share a single one of the ideals of our age.
— Hermann Hesse
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
— Woodrow Wilson
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
— Jean Rostand
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.
— Ali Khamenei
I guess my ideals died the hardest. It's often that way with the children of immigrants. We need to buy the dream so bad we sometimes can't wake up.
— Sara Paretsky
Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself.
— Wallace D. Wattles
If you're not practical, I've found, it can be difficult to hold on to your ideals,
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Ideals are peaceful, history is violent.
— David Ayer
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
— Pyotr Kropotkin
Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake ... don't get cynical.
— Ronald Reagan
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
— Camille Paglia
I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.
— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
It was a simple lesson, really. He could never, ever allow misplaced ideals to seduce him. He would not employ death as a tool.
— Bonnie Dee
Righteous. The real deal. He's honest, loyal, faithful. He lives his ideals. It gives him power.
— Jim Butcher
We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.
— Gillian Jacobs
Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
— Albert Schweitzer
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
— Judith Martin
The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.
— Ralph Nader
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.
— G.K. Chesterton
The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.
— Penn Jillette
Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.
— A.J. Darkholme
Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.
— Elisabeth Badinter
Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
— Katharine Susannah Prichard
We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals.
— Lonnie Bunch
The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.
— Jacquelyn Mitchard
I do not refute ideals, I just out on gloves when I deal with them ...
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.
— Joseph Hertz
The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.
— L. Ron Hubbard
One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.
— Olive Schreiner
Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.
— Billy Bragg
Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.
— Ernest Becker
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
— William Osler
History almost everywhere is tragic and ironic, but in America the contrasts are more stark because we set such high ideals.
— Rinker Buck
I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
— Bianca Jagger
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.
— Octave Feuillet
Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
— Ralph Nader
Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
— Doris Lessing
We have come to a generation which seeks advance without ideals - discovery without stars.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
— Swami Vivekananda
Now is the time to lead your ideal life.
— Phil Cousineau
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
— Susan Neiman
The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.
— Ami Ayalon
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
— George Sand
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
— Sydney J. Harris
Our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life
— Erich Maria Remarque
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
— Naomi Wolf
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
— Henry Cabot Lodge
If ideals have such a power over our lives, if they energize and direct our first entry into the world
— Frank B. Anderson
The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.
— Thomas Moore
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The actual well seen is ideal.
— Thomas Carlyle
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
— George S. Patton Jr.
The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.
— William J. Clinton
The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
— John Buchanan Robinson
Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.
— Karl Shapiro
I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves when I deal with them ...
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth.
— Tupac Shakur
Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!
— Pope Francis
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
— G.K. Chesterton
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
— Alfred North Whitehead
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.
— Jean Paul
Violence is the fear to other's ideals.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Bah! you, too, have ideals, he muttered, looking at her almost with hatred, and smiling sarcastically.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
— Hannah Arendt
The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
— Kevin Costner
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
— John Milton
Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson