7 Movie Quotes about Ideals (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 22, 2025

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.

Jack Palance as Charlie Castle in 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.

Jack Palance as Charlie Castle in 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?

Arthur Franz as Commander "Reef" Holloway in 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!

Marilyn Monroe as The Girl in The Seven Year Itch (1952)

6 Perfect freedom has no existence.

Frank Thring in Ben-Hur (1959)

7 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)

7 Movie Quotes about Ideals (+ Sound Clips)

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