I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned to death. He makes… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university,… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
“I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can digest philosophy better than food.” — Alfred Bernhard Nobel Copy Share Image
What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar. — Jane Rogers Copy Share Image
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?" The First Lord stared at her… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
In Yugoslavia we were told we were not only naive idealists in wanting war criminals to be prosecuted but that we were… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more… — Alfred Nobel 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
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing… — George Bernard Shaw 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
If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I think my mother has always understood what a romantic idealist I am, so she's never had trouble supporting what might be… — Tinsley Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Idealists are either blind or clowns; because they think it is possible to have a beautiful world with asshole creatures like humans.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic"… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting… — Sasha Cagen Copy Share Image
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Do you ever think you're being an idealist? Do you ever wonder if you're holding out for something that doesn't exist? I'm… — Karyn Bosnak Copy Share Image
