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“Many who wave American flags also practice discrimination on the basis of race. Many who wave American flags practice anti-Semitism. We think that betrays the fundamental ideals of our democracy.”

Thinking Race Practice Democracy Ideals Bases Fundamentals Wave Betrayal Discrimination Flags Betray Anti Semitism American Flag

Author:Billy Campbell

“One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.”

“We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a man of the mathematical school washes his hands of applications. To someone who wants them he would say that the ideal system runs parallel to the usual theory: "If this is what you want, try it: it is not my business to justify application of the system; that can only be done by philosophizing; I am a mathematician". In practice he is apt to say: "try this; if it works that will justify it".”

“While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.”

Wells Said Practice Doubt Alive Movement Serious Ideals Agree Ideology Propositions Components Ongoing Zionist Fragmented

Author:Theodore Bikel

“Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.”

Knows Men World Way Reality Lying Poor Practice Products Ideals Perfection Scales Alas Approximation

Book:On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.”

Thinking Mean Stories Community Deals Practice Theory Industry News Ideals Management Excuse Core Familiar Lazy Agreement Fairness Piety Preoccupation Benign Passivity Autopilot Lazy Thinking

Author:Joan Didion

“Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.”

Levels Practice Higher Ideals Dare Defined Capability Affirmation Higher Level Negation Positive Affirmations

Author:Alexander Haig

“In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.”

World Would Be Values Individual Practice Cases Ideals Add Ideal World

Author:Gary Hamel

“Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.”

Wells Soul Reality Spirit Church Practice Blood Atheism Ideals Crosses Mark Positive Atheism Recognition Holiness Conspiracy Graciousness Draining Health Beauty Anaemia

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who hiss orcheer as he attempts to approximate the masculine ideal, who push him to sacrifice more of his humanity for the sake of his masculinity, and who ridicule him when he holds back. The chorus is made up of all the guy's comrades and rivals, his buddies and bosses, his male ancestors and his male cultural heroes--and above all, his father, who may have been a real person in his life, or may have existed only as the myth of the man who got away.”

“The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education.”

Heart Form Practice Ideals Educational Urges

Author:Sai Baba

“If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole...It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.”

Ifs Want Whole Values Humanity Speak Liberty Practice Rights Ideals Universal Prepared Excuse Denial Champion Be Prepared Asia Asian Shameful Civil Liberties Ingenious Citing Basic Rights

Author:Anwar Ibrahim

“The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.”

America Values Moral Practice Ideals Foundation Democratic Dry Gaps Unhealthy Democratic Ideals

Book:To be equal

Source: To be equal