Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
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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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Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
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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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I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
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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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A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
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