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But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

John Buchanan Robinson

Knowledge

Ideals

Interest

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.

Laisenia Qarase

Country

Ideals

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Dennis Potter

Ideals

Word

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

Lester B. Pearson

Peace

Ideals

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Camille Paglia

Ideals

Liberalism

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

We've got very large freshman class, it's historic in its size, so there's people that are extremely diverse in their backgrounds and their viewpoints. I think that we're going to see a conservative group of people coming together, focused on some real ideals that are going to be extremely important.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

Harold Nicolson

Ideals

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.