I've got a lot of experience under my belt, but I still…

I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack] Obama, people…

— Van Jones

I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head…

— Mark Frost

The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for…

— John Allen Fraser

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

— John Cusack

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