I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.
Rush D. Holt, Jr.There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
T. S. EliotA child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus