Ideals quotes

“War implies extreme government because wars are fought to enforce rules or ideals, even freedom. But other people ideals forced on someone else, even if it is something like freedom, is still a rule; not anarchy.”
Matthew Lillard - Stevo

“Over and over again we have tried to find a peaceful way out of the differences between ourselves and those who are now our enemies, but it has been in vain. We have been forced into a conflict, for we are called to meet the challenge of a principle, which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world.”

Colin Firth - King George VI

“History, tradition, culture... are not concepts! These are trophies I keep in my den as paperweights! The chaos we will cause with this machine will be our final masterpiece!”
Richard R. Grant - Darwin Mayflower

“You know, honestly by the time you're 34, all the physical requirements just go out the window. You secretly pray that he'll be taller than you. Not an asshole would be nice. Just someone who enjoys my company, comes from a good family. You don't think about that when you're younger.”

Vera Farmiga - Alex Goran

“You're a man with ideals. Well, I guess I better be going while you still got them.”

Mae West - Flower Belle Lee

“- King Arthur: You may kill me... but you'll never destroy the ideals of Camelot.
- Ruber: Well, I've got to start somewhere.”
Pierce Brosnan - King Arthur
Gary Leonard Oldman - Ruber

“I will not be deterred by partisanship. I will not be deterred by misogyny. I will not be deterred by hate.”
Jeff Bridges - President Jackson Evans

“No cause is lost if there is but one fool left to fight for it.”
Orlando Bloom - Will Turner

“I can't help wondering what he'd say... if he were standing here right now. You know, I think he'd probably tell you: the America represented in this room... is not the America he died defending. I think he'd tell you your America is bitter... and cruel... and small.”

Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton

“- Danny: Tyler, these friends of yours. They wouldn't be by any chance nazis, would they?
- Taylor: ...I prefer to call them politically challenged.”
Noah Taylor - Danny
Alex Menglet - Taylor

“That's what I get for my Leftist tendencies.”

Jeff Bridges - President Jackson Evans

“Some ideals are worth dying for, aren't they, Jean-Luc?”
Tom Hardy - Shinzon

“I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them... but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it... ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love... And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man... A man that made me remember the Fifth of November.”

Natalie Portman - Evey

“Spartans never retreat! Spartans never surrender! Go spread the word. Let every Greek assembled know the truth of this. Let each among them search his own soul. And while you're at it, search your own.”

Gerard Butler - King Leonidas

“- Reg: If you want to join the People's Front of Judea, you have to really hate the Romans.
- Brian Cohen: I do!
- Reg: How much?
- Brian Cohen: A lot!
- Reg: Right, you're in.”
John Marwood Cleese - Reg
Graham Arthur Chapman - Brian Cohen

“You're gonna do great things, Franklin. This place has identity now, a purpose.”
Tim Blake Nelson - Tom Loyless

“Idealists are such a problem. You can't convince them there's no such thing as the ideal.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“There's a lot I could say about this man, but I don't know if it matters now. I guess what matters is what he stood for, what he lived for, and what he died for. You always did everything the way you wanted it. And I didn't understand that, but now I understand. I'll never forget you, Apollo. You're the best.”

Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“I didn't want to end up like him. I wanted to survive! You stand for a cause, you get mowed down. Look. Look! That's the real world. I want my goddamn life back, Adele...”

Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton

“- Ducard: A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed, or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, then you become something else entirely.
- Bruce Wayne: Which is?
- Ducard: Legend, Mr. Wayne.”
Liam Neeson - Ducard
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne

“- Dan: You know, Alice, except for politics, we've got a lot in common: We're both pretty serious, and, I think, respect each other's bases for judgment. Occasionally I get reactionary thoughts, too.
- Alice: I'm not reactionary.
- Dan: Well, aesthetically.”
Matt Ross - Dan
Chloë Sevigny - Alice

“You wanna be honest, don't you? You don't have to die to keep the John Doe ideal alive. Someone already died for that once. The first John Doe.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Ann Mitchell

“Why do we have to be a generation? Why do we need to be labelled? We don't have anything in our generation. 50 years ago there was Ghandi and Churchill. Now all we have is David Beckham and Britney Spears.”
Mikael Colville-Andersen - Oliver Mauro

“You'd try to kill the John Doe movement if you can't use it to get what you want? That certainly is a new low. I guess I've seen everything now... you think of deliberately killing an idea that's made millions of people a little bit happier.”

Gary Cooper - John Doe

“- Marc Blitzstein: I am faithful to the ideals of the party.
- Orson Welles: I am faithful to the party of ideas.
- John Houseman: You are faithful to the idea of a party.”
Hank Azaria - Marc Blitzstein
Angus Macfadyen - Orson Welles
Cary Elwes - John Houseman