Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too…

“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest…

— Jack Kerouac

What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

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

— Teresa Heinz

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

— Ronald Reagan

“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his…

— William Barrett

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

— Lauren Groff

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it -…

— Norman Rockwell

Only the broken-hearted idealist can become a cynic.

— Mark Clifton

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but…

— Raymond Chandler

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

— Germaine Greer

They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."

— Yuri Orlov

“The biggest catch need not be grandest at all.”

— Andy Harglesis

“You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you…

— David Foster Wallace

“An idealist is someone who helps other people to be prosperous”

— Ford Henry Ford

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her…

— Hilda Doolittle