“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. — Teresa Heinz Copy Share Image
Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails." — Yuri Orlov Copy Share Image
“You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
You see something very important is happening. Personality is being eaten out, and with that the idealism that always motivated an anarchist… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind.… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You turn on the shower or you do whatever, but especially right now with the drought in California, there are so many… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
