Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.” — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“If I wasn't idealistic, there wouldn't be anything worth fighting for.” — Mik Everett Copy Share Image
Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills. — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
“Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.” — Shankar Lamichhane Copy Share Image
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching. — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator. — Paul LePaul Copy Share Image
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
“For we were, as I say, an idealistic generation for whom the question was not simply one of how well one practised… — Kazuo Ishiguro 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
Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
A photographer who does not know how to translate his feelings and ideas into a graphically satisfactory form is bound to produce… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces… — David Platt Copy Share Image
I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack]… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Ghettos have their own characteristics and consequences : be they physical. social, intellectual or mental, those who live in them always nurture… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit,… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when you're around I've been tempted to kiss you suddenly and tell you that you were just an idealistic boy with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I'm idealistic so my life outlook is to never give up. Even if something seems absolutely impossible, I will run as hard… — Choi Minho Copy Share Image
Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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