A man without ideals is hollow.

But, without ideals, Europe's foundations will erode.

Soft power arises from the attractiveness of a country's culture, ideals, and policies.

No communist leader, indeed, ever held humanist values.

In the last decade, the position of the UN as a symbol of the ideals of a peaceful world community has been steadily eroded.

This doesn t amount to a conversion to liberal principles or a substitution of Europe for the ideals of the left and of socialism.

Let me share with you some of the ideals I on which I was brought up on in our household.

But both are mere relics of ideas and ideals that in reality have been consigned to the dustbin of history.

This is because the sum of any even integers is even, and the product of any integer with an even integer is also even.

At the same time, the Zeitgeist has turned against the ideals of solidarity since the 1970's.

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Justice was a communal affair and society set a high store by social harmony and peace.

For instance, the prime ideals of a ring are analogous to prime numbers, and the Chinese remainder theorem can be generalized to ideals.

These problems preclude the sudden movement toward the ideal of greater leisure that thinkers like Keynes and Theobald proclaimed.

Therefore, we see a dignified celebration of the Olympic ideals not only in sporting performances, but also in the opportunity to express one s civic attitudes.

Even traditionally leftist parties like Brazil s Partido dos Trabalhadores or Uruguay s Frente Amplio have abandoned old Marxist ideals.

Naturally, they declare friendship with Fidel Castro and seek his embrace to prevent old comrades from accusing them of betraying their legacy.

The Party has moved far from its old Leninist ideals, as it seeks support nowadays through a witch s brew of Russian nationalism, hyper orthodox Christianity, and state Stalinism.

More and more, politics looks like a rigged system whereby members of the same political class compete for jobs, rather than for the victory of ideas, or on behalf of larger collective interests.

The bad news is that Europe s feebleness and America s fatigue might also signal the limits of noble ideas such as the obligation to interfere in order to protect populations being brutalized by their own rulers.

Sometimes a knowledge of history and the past failures of utopian ideals can be a burden because you know that if everything were free, then the food stocks would become depleted and scarce and lead to chaos.

As former US Senator Bob Graham, the lead author of the classified Senate report on the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, put it earlier this year, ISIS is a product of Saudi ideals and Saudi money.

In July 1974, the Hunt Saboteurs Association offered a 250 reward for information leading to the identification of the Band of Mercy, telling the press, We approve of their ideals, but are opposed to their methods.

Should the Nobel Committee choose to recognize Liu s courage and sacrifice in articulating these ideals, it would not only draw global attention to the injustice of Liu s 11 year sentence.