#ideal

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #black #country #ever #founded

I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that. ↗

— David Lloyd

#back #behind #circumstances #comes #compromise

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#back #bargains #been #benefit #carry

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#i #idealist #into #make #me

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#am #because #bottom #bottom line #business

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#dreams #having #ideals #might #stop

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#ideals #incredible #men #prepared #their

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#artistic #been #convinced #desire #falls

Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals. ↗

— Ralph Bunche

#hearts #ideals #noble #response #strongest

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#film star #focused #get #ideal #ideal world