Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships -… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
These Utopian idealists like the Clintons who think they really do have the answers. They think they're following the best minds of… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver… — Elisabeth Rohm Copy Share Image
I am personally an idealist. I was lucky enough to follow my dreams in my own life, so you should definitely follow… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“Americans... are the most idealistic people in the whole world. Their only danger is that the idealist can easily become the idolator.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody… — James Jones Copy Share Image
Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They… — Anna Quindlen 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
Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers --… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
All of Robert Caro's biographies are exceptional, in part because of Caro's fundamental ambivalence about power. He sees its necessity and use… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
“The idealist view has no interpretive anchor that helps hold Revelation together. This view is extremely reader-centered and not tied to the… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
“a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft,… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
I wanted to do journalism, as I was an idealist. Then, in my second year of journalism, I realized that in real… — Nithya Menen Copy Share Image
How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything… — Saad Hariri Copy Share Image
“The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the… — George Santayana 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
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is… — Don Williams Copy Share Image
“I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both… — Jack London Copy Share Image
We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would… — Jessie Daniel Ames Copy Share Image
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