I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism. — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards… — Richard M. Weaver 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
“Idealism is an ideal which is based on the idea of someone of the perfect world or the perfect life. An idealist… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
“We human beings glimpse lofty ideals, catch ourselves betraying them, and sink to suicidal despair--despair from which only the love of our… — John Gardner 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
. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Musically, some of the acts that I've really been identifying with are: Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Earth, Wind &… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication,… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern… — Amos Bronson Alcott 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
“The central inner conflict is one between the constructive forces of the real self and the obstructive forces of the pride system,… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“Don’t you love my idealism? My hypocrisy? My willingness to sound as loving and naive as possible? At least I know that… — Zoe Trope Copy Share Image
“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger 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
“The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing.… — Hwang Sŏk-yŏng 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
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
“A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions… We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping… — Barry Goldwater 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
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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