17 quotes found
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.”
“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.”
“Police business is a hell of a problem. Its a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and theres nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what...”
“I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them. ”
“The worst form of inequality, is the inequality of ideals A people united by the same ideal, irrespective of religion, social status, race, political preference or sexual, would have the strength t...”
“He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals”
“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”
“their reality was far more interesting than any idealized version could possibly be”
“There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.”
“Ideals make reason inaccessible.”
“So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.”
“Once one follows the ideals of any specific ideology, they lose some ability to see the world outside of those pre-filtered glasses.”
“He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in religion or politics, or society, he gave up his heart to the living...”
“It's quite funny how a lot of people are ignorant of the good and bad aspects of the social media. Clean and reserved posts is ideal!”
“People imprison themselves.”
“Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with wh...”
