“There is something that mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism,… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order… — William Irwin Thompson 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
A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can… — John Steinbeck 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
...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to… — Kenneth Cain Copy Share Image
If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a… — James Vance Copy Share Image
The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races… — William O. Douglas 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
Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people somehow (inadvertently, I’m sure) forgot… — Anne Lamott 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 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
[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
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
“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
I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
“9. Zen and Idealism. Next Zen makes use of Idealism as explained by the Dharmalaksana School of Mahayana Buddhism.[FN#197] For instance, the… — Kaiten Nukariya 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
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
...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
“The "compleat diplomat" of the future should remain cognizant of realism's emphasis on the inescapable role of power, keep liberalism's awareness of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Never lose your fierce idealism. Let it be tempered by pragmatism, humility, and a willingness to learn, but never let anyone tell… — Emi Kihslinger Copy Share Image
“He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligation to serve, and believed… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty… — Robert Hughes 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 the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time…I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind…” quote by Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/anais-nin-288_balance_in-the-curious-way-that-my-idealism-has_127099.jpg)
![“[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)
![“9. Zen and Idealism. Next Zen makes use of Idealism as explained by the Dharmalaksana School of Mahayana Buddhism.[FN#197] For instance, the Fourth Patriarch says: "Hundreds and thousands of laws originate with mind. Innumerable mysterious virtues proceed from the mental source." Niu Teu (Go-zu)…” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4d/kaiten-nukariya-793_cease-to-exist_9-zen-and-idealism-next-zen-makes-use-of_862124.jpg)
