"All your high-minded ideals, and you still hate them just as much as they hate you."
You had saved his life, he bequeathed to you a profitable source of raising money - your high-minded British ideals did not enter his horizon.
Sitting in command aboard the giant Juggernaut, General Lanyan didn't have such high-minded ideals or moral reasons.
Clearly, despite his high-minded ideals and enlightened self-image, Riker could still be caught off guard by the unexpected, and by what he didn't yet understand.
But in the nightmare world the movie paints, high-minded human ideals barely win out: the terrorists come dangerously close to winning.
Ah, the virtue of high-minded ideals.
Some performers strive to uphold those sentiments, invoking cozy memories and high-minded ideals; others can use them as something to twist or defy.
The Patryns do not gather on street corners to exchange high-minded ideals or compare philosophies or indulge in pleasant camaraderie.
The Federation is by far the worse aggressor, because of your moral posturing and high-minded ideals... when, actually, you are no better than the Klingons.
I can only conclude that this may be about winning a vote, not about high-minded ideals.