#ideals

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The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.


James Martineau


#negligence #philosophy #religion #wisdom #inspirational

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.


Jan Peter Balkenende


#cold #cold war #commanded #crushing #curtain

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?


Henry Campbell-Bannerman


#attained #been #civil #dignity #gentlemen

I didn't know his age or how he liked his tea, I was wearing a terrible coat and I was drunk as a stoat - but this moment felt like it. The one I'd been waiting patiently for since I was a little girl. I'd worked so hard, for so long, at being ok with being single, but all of the things I'd told myself about independence were disappearing rapidly into the cold night. Right now, he felt like the only person who mattered in the whole world.


Lucy Robinson


#falling-in-love #age

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.


Richard Le Gallienne


#any #christianity #done #founder #ideals

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.


Henry Louis Gates


#america #black #country #ever #founded

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.


George Lucas


#been #dr #forgotten #fought #ideals

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.


George Takei


#achievements #again #also #certainly #country

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.


Lucy Maud Montgomery


#even #grand #great #ideals #life

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.


Frederica Montseny


#i #i wish #ideals #never #old