“A man is always devoted to something more tangible than a woman - the idea of her.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us. — Rick Alverson Copy Share Image
If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you? — James Carville Copy Share Image
One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate… — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.” — Scott Farris Copy Share Image
There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“9. Zen and Idealism. Next Zen makes use of Idealism as explained by the Dharmalaksana School of Mahayana Buddhism.[FN#197] For instance, the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..What… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than… — James David Barber Copy Share Image
When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“10. Idealism is a Potent Medicine for Self-created Mental Disease. In so far as Buddhist idealism refers to the world of sense,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when… — Yuri Bezmenov Copy Share Image
“Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship between the ‘form’ of materialism and its ‘essence’, of the impermissibility of… — Evald Ilyenkov Copy Share Image
“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“It will be seen how subjectivism and objectivism, spiritualism and materialism, activity and suffering, only lose their antithetical character, and thus their… — Robert C. Tucker Copy Share Image
But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
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![“[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than propriety. The president is expected to personify our betterness in an inspiring way, to express in what he does and is, not just what he says, a moral idealism which, in…” quote by James David Barber](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/20d/james-david-barber-66990_demand_the-american-public-demands-a-sense-of-l_2614679.png)
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