#ideal

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cynics #equally #everybody #except #idealists

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#ideals #nation #tell #you

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#bow #great #idealism #ideas #politics

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#became #disillusioned #feel #generation #i

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#defensive #homosexual #hopelessly #ideal #like

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have. ↗

— Jewel

#ever #i #ideal #only #then

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. ↗

— Erica Jong

#been #exploited #group #history #idealized

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#idealist #idiot #pity #village #would

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#always #doubt #ideal #same #varies

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#basis #built #certain #few #ideal