#idea

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#back #been #business #businesses #call

A thought is an idea in transit. ↗

— Pythagoras

#thought #transit

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

— Laisenia Qarase

#any #approach #balanced #certain #country

Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#assume #completely #danger #dare #demand

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#attained #been #carried #consideration #declaring

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#attainment #disarmament #idea #lasting #lasting peace

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. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#acceptable #argument #doctrinaire #foolish #idea

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#ideal #imperfection #itself #may #perfect

And I gave this directive to them, that if they free our assets in the United States, that would be a sign of goodwill. I have the same idea this time. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#directive #free #gave #goodwill #i

When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next. ↗

— Kimi Raikkonen

#age #becoming #before #change #did