#ideal

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#another #car #dreams #even #freedom

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #feels #i #i am #ideally

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#attacked #attempted #avoid #because #defended

I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#energy #feel #give #great #horror

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you? ↗

— James Carville

#sense #some #sustain #then #you

We knew we?d never find someone called Rock Hard, which was our ideal name, and for a while we toyed with the idea of just creating the character but never letting him get seen. ↗

— James Frank

#character #creating #find #get #hard

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected. ↗

— Marilyn French

#another #anyone #because #demonstrate #determined

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#honesty #idealistic #moral-clarity #success #successful

I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment. ↗

— Bauvard

#cynicism #disillusionment #funny #growing-up #humor

God save me from idealists. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#idealism #thomas-raith #humor