Quotes about Ideals
Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
— Os Guinness
As you know, my father was for the inclusiveness and the betterment of society and the world. Certainly we recognize that there are diverse voices in our country, and people have the right of free speech. They have the right of choice, but again, it is our hope that when they choose, they choose to reflect those ideals that he taught us.
— Bernice King
The other parties campaign for parliamentary seats, more or less. We campaign for our principles!
— Abraham Kuyper
Ideals are good, but people are sometimes not so good.
— Joseph Heller
Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].
— Joyce Meyer
Our 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.
— Walt Disney
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key to the future for blacks is a commitment to America and its ideals of freedom, personal responsibility, the free enterprise system, and moral principles.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.
— Mark Twain
Men and times change-but principles-never.
— Grover Cleveland
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
— William Hazlitt
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
— Epicurus