Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying… Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In your late teens and early twenties, everything is idealism. Everything should just work in black and white. That's good. You need… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
To me, one of the best faces America has ever projected is the face of a Peace Corps volunteer. That face symbolizes… — Teresa Heinz Copy Share Image
I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be,… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
“Idealism and naiveté were youthful cousins. Foresight and the considerations of age and experience often brought inaction, compromise, second-guessing; the ability to… — Brent Hayward Copy Share Image
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“Our problem today is that we no longer believe in things but in symbols, hence our life has passed over into these… — David R. Loy Copy Share Image
“Being Jewish did not compromise the humanitarian and universalist ideals of my close relatives who, having experienced persecution close hand, were more… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
I guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things...No one can… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“Another word on the subject of “the idealism of theology.” In fact, traditional theology has not only spoken of the scapegoat, but… — Scott Cowdell Copy Share Image
Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
“We human beings glimpse lofty ideals, catch ourselves betraying them, and sink to suicidal despair--despair from which only the love of our… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
“Idealism is an ideal which is based on the idea of someone of the perfect world or the perfect life. An idealist… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I… — Bono Copy Share Image
Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“How many times in life have I been advised to "toe the line," to "tone it down," to stop "pushing the envelope"?… — Sherry Jones Copy Share Image
“What you don't know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
