“Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music.… — Nikolai Grozni Copy Share Image
The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“We tend to take whatever’s worked in our particular set of circumstances (big family, small family, AP, Ezzo, home school, public school)… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you… — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young,… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
“But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home,… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“Curious that a man as selfish as he should be offering himself to the service of dead dogs. There must be other,… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance. — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
