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Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.
For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.
In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good.
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
If somebody who appears to be a Hizmet sympathizer has been involved in an attempted coup, he betrays my ideals.
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!
Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.
If a girl you're on a date with expresses ideals similar to those expressed by social justice bullies, end the date.
I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Superheroes were created in America, they're most popular in America, and at their best, they embody American ideals.
There's some basic ideals that we should be able to agree on as Americans: We don't tolerate violence on our streets.
The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature.
I am not an ambitious guy, I have a very laidback attitude; money for me is less important than self-respect and ideals.
The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.
Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.
It doesn't suffice to knock the state, to destroy the ideals. Something has to replace those ideals if they're taken away.
You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.
Race pride, socialist ideals, and a sincerity as exalted as that of Carlyle's visionaries coalesced in Asa Philip Randolph.
I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.
The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.
I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.
We know that we can defeat Islamist terrorism without violating our ideals; indeed, we must. These ideals, these American ideals.
I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off - those are not American ideals.
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.
I think it's very important to do things the way you want to do them and be true to yourself, your own goals, and your own ideals.
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.
I believe zealously in conservative ideals, but Nebraskans want people who get things done, not just those who scream at each other.
In a world where ideas and ideals flow freely, we want what everybody else in an advanced society seems to have: a say in our future.