I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.
The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.
It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead.
The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
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.
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be.
Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.
I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.
Love has no contingencies, no expectations, no ideals. Love is a gift to thyself, the experience of divinity in full expression.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.
