Top 25 Ideals Quotes of 165 - Page 4

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

World, Constitution, Ideals

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

Randal Marlin

Exercise, Democratic Ideals, Lips

Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.13, Broadview Press

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

Paul Conrad

Cartoon, Minutes, Ideals

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Oscar Wilde

Reality, Dangerous, Ideals

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.281, e-artnow

It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

Muhammad Iqbal

Real, Mysterious, Ideals

Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism, Idolatry, Ideals

Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

John Maynard Keynes

Wise, Conservatism, Ideals

John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.

John Dewey

Democratic Ideals, Two, Liberty

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.78, SIU Press

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Irving Layton

Cynic, Idealist, Ideals

Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record.

Harry S. Truman

Strong, Thinking, Democratic Ideals

Harry S. Truman (1960). “Freedom and equality, addresses”

I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

Andrew Sullivan

Feels, Stills, Ideals

Andrew Sullivan (1999). “Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival”, Vintage

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

Zac Posen

Believe, Don't Believe, Ideals

Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.

Yves Saint Laurent

Type, Models, Ideals

Interview with Bianca Jagger, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.

A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Men, Horizon, Ideals

William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1867). “Homiletics, and Pastoral Theology”, p.111

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

W. Somerset Maugham

Genius, Talent, Ideals

The actual well seen is ideal.

Thomas Carlyle

Idealism, Wells, Ideals

You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.

Sam Keen

Individual, Discovering, Ideals

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

Robert M. Hutchins

Education, School, Democratic Ideals