#ideal

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#base #christian #christian tradition #culture #element

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them. ↗

— Charles Edison

#believers #bosses #citizens #constantly #democracy

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. ↗

— Don Henley

#blind #hope #idealism #inspire #look

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love. ↗

— Shuler Hensley

#film #first #first love #i #i love

The enemy of idealism is zealotry. ↗

— Neil Kinnock

#idealism

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. ↗

— Alfred Loisy

#been #god #human #human personality #ideal

I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

#always #america #been #democracy #here

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#entertainment #ideal #itself #personal #venue

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. ↗

— James Naismith

#body #clean #ideals #lofty #mind

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. ↗

— Harold Nicolson

#ideals #inclined #judge #others #our