Quotes on ideals

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

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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.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished

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If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say no to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

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Some men are truly great because they follow an ideal; other men are great because they follow those men.

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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion

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When a man forgets his ideals, he may hope for happiness, but not till then

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In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite possibly the security of mankind. They rely on something that has worked to get man this far without placing ideals blindly driven by emotion first; they have a sure line and they say, 'No.' That, in a sense, is something I find to be highly respectable.

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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.

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