Quotes about ideal
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John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn photo

“I have often thought that Strafford was an ideal type, both for governor of Ireland in the 17th century, and governor of India in the 20th century.”

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838–1923) British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor

Letter to Lord Minto (19 September 1907), quoted in D. A. Hamer, Lord Morley: Liberal Intellectual in Politics (1968), p. 56
1900s

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“You cannot save democracy in a vacuum of idealism. You have got to be motivated by idealism, but you have got to also be fighting the hard problem of practical politics.”

Walter Reuther (1907–1970) Labor union leader

Statement to the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections, Washington, D.C., October 9, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 170
1950s, Statement to the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections (1956)

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“Music is the ideal companion in sad, difficult or joyful moments. The divine substance that creates emotions.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La musica è la compagna ideale nei momenti tristi, difficili o di gioia. La divina sostanza che crea emozione in ogni situazione.
Source: prevale.net

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“Night is the ideal companion to confess one's thoughts.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La notte è la compagna ideale alla quale confessare i propri pensieri.
Source: prevale.net

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“The ideal country does not exist, as progress would discontinue. A life without ideals would be individually miserable and politically useless.”

Egils Levits (1955) Latvian judge, jurist and politician

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Saeima, https://www.president.lv/en/article/address-he-president-latvia-mr-egils-levits-assuming-office-saeima

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“Not all idealism is fake.”

Robert Charles Wilson (1953) author

Source: Last Year (2016), Chapter 11 (p. 192)

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“I am convinced that it is possible for us to be united by our ideals, instead of divided by our differences.”

Sheyene Gerardi Venezuelan actor and model

Sheyene Gerardi (Sheyene Institute Founder´s letter, published 2020-07-09)

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“A people needs air, broad horizons, an ideal which charms its imagination and makes its heart beat; reduce it to household calculations, to the politics of party interests, it will disintegrate and corrupt itself.”

Émile Banning (1836–1898) academic, civil servant

Source: All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), Emile Banning (1836-1898): The Don Quichotte of the ‘liberal civilization’ in Congo, A romantic associate of Leopold II. http://www.ethesis.net/leopold_II/leopold_II.htm#_ftn194 CROKAERT, P. Brialmont, 23.

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“Islam is a revolutionary ideology and programme which seeks to alter the social order of the whole world and rebuild it in conformity with its own tenets and ideals.”

Abul A'la Maududi (1903–1979) Indian theologian, politician and philosopher

Source: quoted in Asma Afsaruddin - Striving in the Path of God_ Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought-Oxford University Press (2013) 209-11 (Maududi , S. Abul A‘la . Jihad in Islam . Salimiah, KW , 1977 .)

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“All religions fall far short of their own ideals.”

Source: The Denial of Death (1973), The Present Outcome of Psychoanalysis, p. 204

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“The ideal reconciliation should come from religion. But this kind of concept should come from either the Protestants or the Catholics, because we Christians have this kind of idea we have this kind of solidarity — whereas other religions don't care about this.”

John Hung Shan-chuan (1943) Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Taipei

Source: Interview with Archbishop of Taipei https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/interview-with-archbishop-of-taipei-1299 (December 2008)

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“There are no ideals exalting the soul, but only chains, invisible indeed, but binding man more securely than iron. And no act of heroism, no “good work” can open the doors to man’s “perpetual confinement.””

Lev Shestov (1866–1938) Russian theologian

Dostoievsky’s barrack vows of “improvement” now appeared to him as a sacrilege. He experience which he underwent was much the same as Luther’s when he remembered with such unfeigned horror and disgust the vows which he had pronounced on entering the convent. P. 10
Source: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, The Conquest of the Self-Evident; Dostoievsky’s Philosophy

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“Our society has so many issues, it is difficult to continue to reflect a sunny ideal when for many that is not the case,”

Ego Boyo (1968) Nigerian actress and movie producer

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/381261-how-nigeria-police-can-improve-image-through-film-ego-boyo.html Boyo talks about police officers acts.

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“It’s so idealized, like, your life must be perfect if you can hold a balance posture on the beach. But the actual practice of yoga isn’t about that at all. The image isn’t important. The practice is.”

Jessamyn Stanley (1987) American yoga teacher and author

Source: Finding a More Inclusive Vision of Fitness in Our Feeds, Jenna Wortham, July 6, 2017, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/magazine/finding-a-more-inclusive-vision-of-fitness-in-our-feeds.html,

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“My opinion is that the best law is an education of quality, that begins in the family, grows at school and finds in society a stimulus for the formation of people. We are greatly lacking in civic friendship, we look at one another as mad people and not as brethren or as people who share the same ideal, the same purpose.”

Ricardo Ezzati (1942) archbishop and cardinal

Source: Chile – Cardinal Ezzati: Reparation Eucharist https://www.infoans.org/en/sections/news/item/1167-chile-cardinal-ezzati-reparation-eucharist-at-gratitud-nacionain-this-l (13 June 2016)

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“In order to fit into certain ideals, you need to mutilate yourself.”

Intan Paramaditha (1979) Indonesian writer and feminist academic

On using the story “The Red Shoes” as inspiration for a woman trapped by societal ideals in “Intan Paramaditha: 'We are always haunted by the road not taken'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/05/intan-paramaditha-the-gathering-novel in The Guardian (2020 Mar 5)

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“Comradely relations based on the common ideals and aims of the difficult struggle we all share are our most sacred posses­sion as Communists.”

Kaysone Phomvihane (1920–1992) first General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (1955-1992)

Revolution in Laos: Practice and Prospects (1981) (excerpts)

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“We have outlined under a number of headings our objectives and the ideal for which we struggle.”

Errico Malatesta (1853–1932) Italian anarchist

An Anarchist Programme (1920)

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“Every day is ideal to start, start again and reinvent yourself, but above all every day is the day to love each other.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Ogni giorno è ideale per iniziare, ricominciare e reinventarsi, ma soprattutto ogni giorno è il giorno per amarsi.
Source: prevale.net

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“The person envious of your abilities feels continuous resentment toward you and, inevitably, grudge towards your existence. His ideal place is far away from you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La persona invidiosa delle tue capacità prova un continuo risentimento nei tuoi confronti e, inevitabilmente, astio verso la tua esistenza. Il suo posto ideale è lontano da te.
Source: prevale.net

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“I know that our efforts all come to nothing. Analyze life, tear its trappings off, lay it bare with thought, with logic, with philosophy, and its emptiness is revealed as a bottomless pit; its nothingness frankly confesses to nothingness, and Despair comes to perch in the soulI know the end of us all is nothing, I know that at the end of Time, the reward of our toil will be nothing — and again nothing. I know that all our handiwork and all our ideas will be destroyed. I know that not even ash will be left from the fires that consume us. I know that our ideals, even those we achieve, will vanish in the eternal darkness of oblivion and final non-being. There is no hope, none, in my heart. I know, No promise, none, can I make to myself and to others. No recompense can I expect for my labors. No fruit will be born of my thoughts. I know the time — eternal seducer of all men, eternal cause of all effects — offers me nothing but the blank prospect of annihilation. So, my dignity is broken and weak, in recognition of my impending defeat.

The man who is alone, who stands on his own feet, who is stripped bare, who asks for nothing and wants nothing, who has reached the apex of disinterested­ness not through blind renunciation but through ex­cess of clear vision, turns to the world which stretches out before him as a burned prairie, as a devastated city — a world in which no churches, asylums, refuges, ideals, are left — and says: «Though you promise me nothing I am still with you, I am still an atom of your energies, my work is part of your work; I am your companion and your mirror as you march on your merciless way. But I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to freedom alone.”

Source: https://alexiskarpouzos.medium.com/at-the-end-of-time-alexis-karpouzos-0b5a34cfbbe9

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“The city becomes an ideal metaphor for how I perceive human beings.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/

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“The ideal person revolutionises your life: encourages you, strengthens your ideas, your dreams, admires and esteems you, but above all rebels against any mistake you make.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La persona ideale rivoluziona la vostra vita: vi incoraggia, rafforza le vostre idee, i vostri sogni, vi ammira e vi stima, ma soprattutto si ribella ad ogni vostro errore.
Source: prevale.net