#ideal

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#distortion #dreams #idealistic #imagination #know

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ↗

— George McGovern

#healthy #i #ideal #like #normal

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again. ↗

— George Takei

#achievements #again #also #certainly #country

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#aims #among #aspirations #collective #collective consciousness

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#better #cabbage #concludes #idealist #make

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#debate #dispute #end #famous #fear

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#american #american taxpayer #asked #being #benefit

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#became #between #case #completely #difference

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

#even #grand #great #ideals #life

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#i #i wish #ideals #never #old