Lippmann called the notion of a public competent to direct public affairs a "false ideal."

These unhealthy trends needed to be corrected, he warned, and students firmly guided away from the false ideals of bourgeois liberalism.

She was indeed but a little girl chained by the inexorable bonds of caste to a false ideal.

There is no pride where I have been, and no false ideals.

He was a former politician whose life had foundered because of his false ideals.

Despite its superficial appeal, colorblindness is a false ideal.

There were false ideals in the land.

To do myself justice, I should make it clear that the false humanist ideal of knowledge as an end in itself never appealed to me.

Such books were the very honey of false ideals and therein lay their danger.

These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age.