Sentence examples for great ideals from inspiring English sources

It seems these 'ideas' should be understood in a Platonic sense, as they generally refer to great values or great ideals such as beauty, greatness and goodness.

Great ideals and today tarnished for good.

As he writes in conclusion, the 20th century was "the graveyard of great ideals.

Our Middle East experience: Great ideals, poor planning and execution and continually flawed thinking.

Too distant, too idealistic to be taken seriously or seriously discussed, for military personnel the truce remains one of the Games' great ideals.

As "a symbol of justice in the court of the oppressor", he felt himself "the representative of the great ideals of freedom, fairness and democracy in a society that dishonoured those virtues".

Not out of some great ideal, but from loneliness.

[But] in democracies, a great ideal gives rise to great bravery.

Our forefathers who created this nation were led by a great ideal of liberty.

Look, free speech is obviously a great ideal to strive toward.

"For me, the great ideal is a work that stands up to repetition," he says.