Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called '...
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!
There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.
The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.
In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there.
I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.
