A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
I'm an idealist.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.