We're all idealistic when young.

I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know, whether it's…

— Emma Donoghue

“Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed – that's where lawyers and reporters come from, you know.…

— CrimethInc

In the old days I'd like to have been a politician, when I think the world was more idealistic. When I was young I…

— Sheila Hancock

“Remember when we were idealistic young journalists who thought we could make the world a better place? We wanted to chase out corrupt politicians…

— Susan Schoenberger

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

— Desmond Tutu

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all…

— Barbara Cartland

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their…

— William Irwin Thompson

“I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality…

— Jack Kornfield

The young and dynamic and idealistic people in the square do not have the chance to organise themselves politically, to be able to follow…

— Kofi Annan

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

— Albert Einstein

I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do…

— Meryl Streep

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving…

— James Wolcott

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz