The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place. — Sung Kang Copy Share Image
“The state of being prosperous is equivalent to labor and hard work put in. Be Persistent! Be A Hustler!” — The Idealist Merchant Copy Share Image
But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
“There is something that mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism,… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with:… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I always used to suffer a great deal if I let myself get too close to reality since the definitive world of… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Idealism is a most potent medicine for these self-created mental diseases. It will successfully drive away devils and spirits that frequent ignorant… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
You see something very important is happening. Personality is being eaten out, and with that the idealism that always motivated an anarchist… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a… — William James Copy Share Image
I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is… — Phillip Sandifer Copy Share Image
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind.… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
