8 Movie Quotes about Ideals (+ Sound Clips)

Memorable quotes about ideals, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Ideals, kitty? Nowadays? A lost crusade.

Quote from The Big Knife (1955)

2 You and your silly ideals. You think truth is the most important thing.

Geraldine Page in Hondo (1953)

3 You're a special, idealistic type. The only thing is, business and idealism, they don't mix. It's oil and water.

Quote from The Big Knife (1955)

4 Oh, you talk like so many young men I've known. You talk well. Literately, intelligently, even brilliantly sometime, but you're all talk. What do you do about your ideas, your ideals?

Quote from The Atomic Submarine

5 Ethics? Once I had ethics. Once I was young. Once I had ideals. Once I was registered! And then you happened!

Quote from The Seven Year Itch (1952)

6 Perfect freedom has no existence.

Frank Thring in Ben-Hur (1959)

7 She is the most wonderful girl in the world. -Is she pretty? -She has such ideals and such a viewpoint on things that she's so far above the girls you meet today, there's no comparison. -So, she is not so very pretty.

James Stewart as Alfred Kralik in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

8 He was a man of high ideals, so-called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.

Lionel Barrymore in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)