Ideals quotes

“- Jojo Betzler: I said to draw where Jews live. This is just a stupid picture of my head.
- Elsa Korr: Yeah, that's where we live.”
Roman Griffin Davis - Jojo
Thomasin McKenzie - Elsa

“Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.”
Brad Pitt - Wardaddy

“- Morris Fenderbaum: I've been called a lot of things but I had never been called a commie.
- Jamie Blake: I'm not even a democrat!”
Sammy Davis Jr. - Morris Fenderbaum
Dean Martin - Jamie Blake

“You didn't just have faith in Paine or any other living man. You had faith in something bigger than that. You had plain, decent, everyday, common rightness, and this country could use some of that.”

Jean Arthur - Saunders

“What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the people you care about in this world. That's what counts in this life.”
Brian Dennehy

“We try and hold on to some kind of ideals, when everything - ideals, hope, everything is being destroyed.”
Millie Perkins - Anne Frank

“Suprema, the Wonder Woman... shall be the start of a powerful feminist movement; she will be carefully crafted, psychologically propaganda, based on a lifetime of research into the human mind inserted into a popular medium!”
Luke Evans - William Moulton Marston

“This is a war. But it's a war that cannot be won by the virtues of our unassailable military might and power alone. This war will be won primarily with the unassailable might and power of our ideals.”
Brad Pitt - Glen McMahon

“I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.”
Zachary Levi

“- Katherine Newbury: Walter, I have invested in precisely two things my entire life, you and this show. I won’t lose it now! I can’t!
- Walter Lovell: Then you have to fight again. Something you haven’t had to do for a long, long time. They want to replace you. But they can’t replace you if everyone loves you.”
Emma Thompson - Katherine Newbury
John Lithgow - Walter Lovell

“- Col. Mathieu: It's not warriors we need.
- Journalist: Then what?
- Col. Mathieu: Political will, which is sometimes there and sometimes isn't.”
Jean Martin - Col. Mathieu

“- Mrs. Alice Evans: Oh Dan, I don't want a hero, I want you!
- Dan Evans: Honest to God, if I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't, but I heard Alex scream. The towndrunk gave his life because he believed that people should be able to live in decency and peace together. Do you think I can do less?”
Leora Dana - Mrs. Alice Evans
Van Heflin - Dan Evans

“This is really wonderful. If we go along with you and lie our asses off, the world of truth and ideals is protected. But if we don't want to take part in some giant rip-off of yours then somehow or other we're managing to ruin the country. You're pretty good, Jim. I'll give you that.”
Josh Brolin - Charles Brubaker

“- Martin Luther King Jr.: We need your involvement here, Mr. President. We deserve your help as citizens of this country. Citizens under attack.
- President Lyndon B. Johnson: Now, you listen to me. You listen to me. You're an activist. I'm a politician. You got one big issue. I got a hundred and one.”
David Oyelowo - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tom Wilkinson - President Lyndon B. Johnson

“- Genny: Well... , uh, I'm sorry about that, sir. We're Republican.
- President Matt Douglas: Well, at least you can admit it. That's the first step towards recovery.”
Connie Ray - Genny
James Garner - President Matt Douglas

“When I was a kid, I would sit on the floor of my house in Mumbai and I would read about the great nations, the great empires. The Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire... they all came and they all went. But I always thought there was one exception to that rule, and that's the United States of America, which is a different kind of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dinesh D'Souza - Himself

“I'm not sure, maybe ideals have ceased to exist. Maybe they're outmoded like, uhm, oil lamps and horse cars. But they're mine, and I'm stuck with them.”
William Powell - Jim Wade

“Look, Pete, the 60s are over. All that peace and love and freedom stuff, yeah it was great for picking up chicks, but it's not gonna help my career. To do that, I gotta make test scores go up. And to make test scores go up, I gotta keep kids in class where they belong.”
James Woods - Dr. Philliam "Phil" Benedict

“I'm gonna stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these.”
Jimmy Stewart - Jefferson Smith

Take a magic marker, cross out the word "Objectivity". Your constituents want you for your opinions, your philosophy, for your subjectivity.
Gary Leonard Oldman - Shelly Runyon

“I fought for Harold against the Danes. I saved a Duke's life. I fought for him until he died. Fought for Spain against the Franks. Fought for the Franks against the Boulogne. I fought for the Pope. Many flags.”
Matt Damon - William

“There may be dark days ahead, and war can no longer be confined to the battlefield, but we can only do the right as we see the right, and reverently commit our cause to God. If one and all we keep resolutely faithful to it, then, with God's help, we shall prevail.”

Colin Firth - King George VI

“I think the street would kill you. Your rhetoric and your propaganda aren't gonna save you out there.”

Avery Brooks - Dr. Bob Sweeney

“The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.”
Britt Ekland

“Please let him earn more money than I do, you might not understand that now but believe me, you will one day otherwise that's a recipe for disaster. And hopefully, some hair on his head. I mean, that's not even a deal breaker these days. A nice smile. Yea, a nice smile just might do it.”

Vera Farmiga - Alex Goran