Ideals quotes

“I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.”
Stephen Lang

“America is a whorehouse where the revolutionary ideals of your forefathers are corrupted and sold in alleys by vendors of capitalism.”

- David Gale: You don't subscribe to the idea that "a good state is the one that protects its most despised members"?
- Governor Hardin: It's a nice liberal idea. But, like most nice liberal ideas, naive.
Kevin Spacey - David Gale
Michael Crabtree - Governor Hardin

“You see, they're stubborn. That's the good thing about the Germans. Man, you got to admin, when they get an idea in their heads...”
Ronald Francis Perlman - Koulikov

“You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.”
Peter Coyote

“I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.”
Kelly Preston

“- Dennis: Look, even if you did get pregnant, I'd marry you.
- Odette: Do you believe in centralized government or states' rights?
- Dennis: What?
- Odette: I just want to know the kind of guy I'm marrying.
- Dennis: I'm starting to get the distinct impression you don't want to do this anymore.”

Matthew Lawrence - Dennis
Gaby Hoffmann - Odette

“Frederic, have you ever worn a whalebone corset? Well no, we established that, didn't we? It chokes and strangles, Frederic! I won't be choked and strangled by someone else's dumb ideas of custom and duty!”

Kristy McNichol - Mabel Stanley

“You traveled the world... Now you must journey inwards... to what you really fear... it's inside you... there is no turning back. Your parents' death was not your fault. Your training is nothing. The will is everything. If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely. Are you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Liam Neeson - Ducard

“I'm trying to believe you, Shinzon. If there is one ideal that the Federation holds most dear, it is that all men, all races can be united. What better example? A Starfleet captain, standing in the Romulan Senate. Nothing would make me more proud than to take your hand in friendship, in time... when that trust has been earned.”
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard

“- Kang: I'm working for justice, to give millions of starving men, women, and children a chance at more than just subsistence. To end the civil war your country interrupted so long ago. And yes, for a united, prosperous Korea.
- Forbes: It's a whole new world, baby.”
Rick Yune - Kang
Dylan McDermott - Forbes

- Esco Swanger: What exactly do you think you're going to be fighting for?
- Acton Swanger: The South!
- Esco Swanger: Last I checked, "the South" was a direction.

James Gammon - Esco Swanger
Christopher Fennell - Acton Swanger

“They murdered my father, along with my mother and my two younger sisters... out of greed and my father's fight for democracy. For his people... My people!”
Sammi Rotibi - Arthur Azuka

“I'm fighting for something that's real for the first time in my life!”
Channing Tatum - Tyler Gage

“We're just living in a pretense of a marriage responsibility, and all these ideas of how people are supposed to live.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- Jack Edwards: ...but to blame all this on a French philosopher who's been dead for 300 years, isn't that a little out of proportion? Maybe even a little eccentric?
- Sonia Hoffman: No. Not if I'm right.”
Sam Waterston - Jack Edwards
Liv Ullmann - Sonia Hoffman

“- Freddie Fallows: Are you political, Mr. Gaines?
- Cecil Gaines: No, sir.
- Freddie Fallows: Good. We have no tolerance for politics at the White House.”
Colman Domingo - Freddie Fallows
Forest Whitaker - Cecil Gaines

“I may vote Republican, but I'm a firm believer in gum control.”
Steven Soderbergh - Dr. Jeffrey Korchek

“Better to keep an army intact than to destroy it. So on, son. I envy you. You're gonna die for something you believe in.”

Kevin Tighe - Colonel Merrick

“I'm a filmmaker. That's all I am, I don't know what else to do. What the hell do they think I'm gonna do? Blow all the bridges if the Red Army comes invading Manhattan?”
Robert De Niro - David Merrill

“I ain't getting shot again for some cause I don't believe in.”
Jude Law - Inman

“Look, I fight for what's mine, I make no apologies. You can call me a ballbuster but it's just the way I am.”
Mercedes Ruehl - Connie Russo

“I'm not just saying goodbye to you. I'm also saying goodbye to myself. I stood by and watching my father be... tortured and executed, and I did nothing. Then I watched them do the same thing to you, and I did nothing. I make a promise here at your graveside, to do everything to punish those who have turned ideals into crimes.”

Ralph Fiennes - Ivan Sors

“- Congressman Doyle: Are you asking this committe to believe that you attended the meeting of a communist organization because of a girl?
- Peter Appleton: Yes, sir... I'm sure that even a majority counselor like yourself has familiar with the concept of impressing a girl!”
Hal Holbrook - Congressman Doyle
Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton

“You have a right to have an ideal. Oh, I guess we all have one.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Jean