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#ideals

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Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.


Alberto Moravia


#based #becomes #custodian #customs #each

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.


Jawaharlal Nehru


#failure #forget #ideals #objectives #only

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.


Barack Obama


#christian #christian nation #citizens #consider #great

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.


Barack Obama


#asks #bound #charity #commitment #defense

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.


William Howard Taft


#earth #god #heaven #hereafter #i

Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."


Henrik Ibsen


#foreign #ideals #lies #native #use

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.


Brennan Manning


#ideal #ideals #old #old-age #soul

They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better. Such alluring, such perilous ideals!


Margaret Atwood


#earnest #ideals #change

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.


Mae West


#better #going #got #i #i see

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.


Susan Sontag


#ambition #democracy #egalitarianism #equality #essence






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