Idealism Quotes · Page 9

I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.

— Vernon A. Walters

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

— Mikhail Bakunin

“My generation failed to change the world, but at least I did not let the world change me.”

— Chronis Missios

Its not a coincidence that Sober and So bored sound alike.

— Anonymous

“In attaining our ideals,our means should be as pure as the end!”

— Rajendra Prasad

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

— Anne Lamott

Just because you don't fit society's standards of beautiful, doesn't mean YOU aren't beautiful.

— Rachel Marie Meyer

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

— Anais Nin

“It was realism that told Kelly he couldn’t fix all the problems of the world; it was idealism that told him his…

— Tom Clancy

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.

— Bob Geldof

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to…

— Lorrie Moore

He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes…

— Terence Fisher

“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course.…

— Terry Pratchett

“...in one hundred years we have lost the best human virtues of the nineteenth century: fervent idealism and the primacy of feeling:…

— Gabriel García Márquez

I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected…

— Matt Salmon

The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.

— Friedrich von Bernhardi

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men…

— Calvin Coolidge

Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that…

— Germaine Greer

We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races…

— William O. Douglas

The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and…

— Herman Melville

For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a…

— James Vance

“You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that…

— Thomas Pynchon

[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer…

— Anais Nin

The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.

— David Wolf

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

— Claude McKay

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

— Rem Koolhaas

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

— Susan Neiman

Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.

— Michael Arditti

To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in…

— Walter Benjamin

“Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.”

— Diana Peterfreund

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

— John Wooden

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

— Susan Sontag

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

— Sidney Hook

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

— Dorothy Day

“In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“You were so beautiful when you were young. So much idealism it was inspiring.”

— Miguel Syjuco

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

— Margaret Atwood

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

— Isadora Duncan

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism.

— Teresa Heinz