Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others they send forth a ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Ideal - Idealists Quotes
No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination.
Ideals are the most powerful force known to man. No nation’s greatness long survives the lowering of the greatness of its ideals. And, as with nations, so with individuals. Low ideals and high station cannot long retain company. We all must have ideals unless we are content to drift along aimlessly, ambitionless, ineffectually. Ideals vitalize, […]
If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
This word “ideology” signifies the notion that mankind can be governed by abstract political formulas, regardless of a people’s historical experience, and notwithstanding the complexity of human affairs. Ideology is the negation of politics as the art of the possible. The ideologue sets up a sham religion and promises salvation – not salvation through grace […]
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
If I cannot realize my Ideal, I can at least idealize my Real.
It may be that idealism requires naivete to survive, because no war ever goes as planned, and peace can be just as confounding.
