#ideals

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#bad #citizen #come #force #ideals

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals. ↗

— Saul Williams

#art #begins #creative #downfall #find

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#belief #charity #christian #deep #especially

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#genuine #go #ideals #indeed #my own

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#about #human #human personality #i #idealistic

When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray. ↗

— Erin Gray

#acting #cast #first #get #had

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self. ↗

— George Grosz

#beliefs #best #bitter #bitter end #brutality

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#beyond #capability #dare #defined #go

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#consider #creating #dangerous #dangerous thing #enemy

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#experience #forward #go #ideals #language