Ideal Quotes

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 have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

My ideal weight is 205, actually.

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.