Quotes About False Ideals

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

Franz Werfel

#2. Be what you yearn to be, and stop living for false ideals.

E.M. Markoff

#3. 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.

Sai Baba

#4. Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

Jimmy Wales

#5. Every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them.

L.M. Montgomery

#6. What I am feeling in myself, and what is happening to my physical body, to some extent, and what is happening to me mentally, is not a depression, is not a death. It is a transformation. It is a transcendence.

Glenn Beck

#7. People come up to me and say, 'Emo, do people really come up to you?'

Emo Philips

#8. She opened her mouth, clamped it shut again. This was new, this sudden favor shown Gloucester, had been brought back with him from Burgundy like some malevolent foreign pox.

Sharon Kay Penman

#9. Work is a four-letter word that ends with "K.

Donald Allen Kirch

#10. See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals ...

Arthur Miller

#11. Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#12. Is that true, Ruth?' Mrs Quinty asked, eyes enormous and brows lifted, missing altogether the point of stories.

Niall Williams

#13. The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals. To free one's mind of chains is to free it of the care of what is acceptable or viewed so by society, this is when true freedom is discovered.

John Dewey

#14. I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason

Naguib Mahfouz

#15. I hated my part in the charade of murder and horror. My efforts were contributing to the deaths, to the burning alive of children - especially the children. The photographs of young Vietnamese children burned by napalm destroyed me.

Ralph McGehee