False Ideals Quotes

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

We're in a world and a society where we're all striving for this perfection that doesn't exist.

A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.

We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.

Liberty and Nationality are mere lyrics to them of which they understand nothing.

It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions and feelings of men for what they are. But he still has the hope of replacing his old illusions with others, just as fleeting, but also just as sweet.

Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.

How are you gonna make an 'idol' from the type of person you're trying to avoid in real life?

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are used for marketing.

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.

It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.

A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.

I hated myself because I had this imagined version of who I wanted to be. Looking back, this idealized person was an amalgamation of various toxic leading men I would watch in movies over the years. Cool. Strong. Mysterious. Serious. Intense.

Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.

Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!

I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.