That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
“The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one… — Robert Brandom Copy Share Image
That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
We came together [with King Hussein of Jordan] because of a shared sense of idealism, of the value of service to a… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
“Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship between the ‘form’ of materialism and its ‘essence’, of the impermissibility of… — Evald Ilyenkov Copy Share Image
Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice-and from that all other things would… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was? — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“She gasped. “You know what your problem is? You don’t take yourself… or anything… seriously enough!” She sat rigidly, her teeth and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
“Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
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