Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making… — Bono Copy Share Image
Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“What she tried to label honesty in his candour was probably only a cynical defiance of the laws of right and wrong.” — Saki Copy Share Image
...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..What… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than… — James David Barber Copy Share Image
When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
One day s0meone asked me, what kind 0f pers0n d0 I need? I just smiled and said... s0meonE n0t str0ng... not st0ng… — Meggy 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
The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world.… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? — Jack Kornfield 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
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
Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“It seems probable that he was trying to yoke the fractious horses of his dream, to straddle transcendental idealism and scientific empiricism,” — Randall Fuller Copy Share Image
The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“By striving to see through the veil of our ordinary perceptions, we can come closer to understanding our profound relationship to all… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us… — Dan B. Allender 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
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
My father was possessed of an extraordinary romantic idealism, an unwavering belief in certain principles. He was always talking about the past.… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
“The resulting union of idealism and love of power has led men astray over and over again, and is still doing so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Too often, young people who are just bursting with idealism either find themselves playing a game for which they have little heart… — George W. Romney Copy Share Image
In your late teens and early twenties, everything is idealism. Everything should just work in black and white. That's good. You need… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
To me, one of the best faces America has ever projected is the face of a Peace Corps volunteer. That face symbolizes… — Teresa Heinz 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
I think the most important thing is [to] restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism in state government. Bring to… — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
![“[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than propriety. The president is expected to personify our betterness in an inspiring way, to express in what he does and is, not just what he says, a moral idealism which, in…” quote by James David Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20d/james-david-barber-66990_demand_the-american-public-demands-a-sense-of-l_2614679.png)
![“The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.” quote by Frank Gehry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ed/frank-gehry-2139_architecture_the-idealism-in-architecture-is-in-the-f_875197.png)
![“I think the most important thing is [to] restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism in state government. Bring to the job a desire to really make things happen and help people and give confidence back to the public.” quote by Rod Blagojevich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f5/rod-blagojevich-25882_confidence_i-think-the-most-important-thing-is-to-r_237599.jpg)
