My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home. . . he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals.
The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature.
I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens. . . for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand. . . a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.
The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.
The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible
If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.
It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.
I'm just like anyone else. I have ideals that I grasp onto but I try not to grasp on too tightly and to be open to other people's thoughts and opinions even if they're completely different than mine.
You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.
My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.
The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.
An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.
The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.
As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.