{"quotes":[{"text":"A nation lives by its myths and heroes. Many societies have survived defeat and invasion, even political and economic collapse. None has survived the corruption of its picture of itself. High and popular art are not in competition here. Both may help citizens decide what they are and what they admire. In our age, however, high art has given up speaking to the body of its fellow citizens. It devotes itself to technical displays that can appeal only to other technicians.","author":"E. Christian Kopff","tags":["american-culture","art-and-life","art-theory","culture","high-art","ideals","myth","pop-art"],"id":8129,"author_id":"E.+Christian+Kopff"},{"text":"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. ","author":"David Crockett","tags":["ideals","loyalty","politics"],"id":11918,"author_id":"David+Crockett"},{"text":"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.","author":"Louisa May Alcott","tags":["aspirations","dreams","goals","ideals"],"id":24825,"author_id":"Louisa+May+Alcott"},{"text":"And when I fall in love,” I began, 'I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["build","clouds","dreamers","dreaming","dreams","fall-in-love","feet","firm","grass","grounded","heads","idealists","ideals","illusions","love","lover","mountain","purple","realist","reality","sky","worlds"],"id":24862,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.","author":"Virginia Petrucci","tags":["beauty","body-image","choice","feminism","feminist","gender","gender-roles","ideals","society","sociology","women"],"id":40767,"author_id":"Virginia+Petrucci"},{"text":"The religion I am talking about here is plain everyday humanism. That’s exactly what the person named Jesus attempted to spread, but due to innate psychological reasons, his pupils ended up constructing yet another orthodox circle with its own distinct beliefs, ideals and fantasies.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["beliefs","brainy","christ","christianity","christians","compassion","consciousness","evolutionary-psychology","fantasies","gods","human-mind","human-nature","ideals","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus","love","love-thy-neighbor","neurotheology","philosophy","prophets","religion","religions","religious-diversity","science-and-religion","science-of-human-nature","science-of-mind","self-preservation","truth"],"id":47268,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"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 to fight for a fairer country.","author":"Marcela Re Ribeiro","tags":["ideals","inequality","life","union","world"],"id":61963,"author_id":"Marcela+Re+Ribeiro"},{"text":"Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not question such a relativistic dogma? Is not the degree of our sensitivity to the validity of the ultimate ideals and values that fluctuates rather than the ultimate ideals and values?","author":"Abraham Joshua Heschel","tags":["idealism","ideals","relativism","values"],"id":64590,"author_id":"Abraham+Joshua+Heschel"},{"text":"Every person is a creator. We create with our ideas and beliefs. Our daily labor creates a worldly cocoon that enfolds us. We mold out of a granite substance not yet hardened the tutelary angels whose ideological formation will guide our passageway through the jungle of life.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["creativity","idea","ideals","ideas","labor","purpose-driven-life","purpose-of-life","purposeful-journey","purposeful-life","work","working"],"id":67782,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?","author":"John Fowles","tags":["art","betray","betrayal","betrayed","bursting","charm","experience","frank","frankness","good","goodness","ideal","ideals","important","knowledge","life","old","older","trivial","understand","virtue","virtuous","years","young","younger"],"id":81021,"author_id":"John+Fowles"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":81,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}