Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. — Teresa Heinz Copy Share Image
I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You were so beautiful when you were young. So much idealism it was inspiring.” — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself. — Dorothy Day 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
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
A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement,… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented —… — Catherine Breillat Copy Share Image
It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands… — John McCain Copy Share Image
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something… — Karl Kraus 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
The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never… — Victor Davis Hanson 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
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
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
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
All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I… — Bono Copy Share Image
Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being proud of America, believing that America can do great things. America can do great things, it has… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind.… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is… — Phillip Sandifer Copy Share Image
There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
“The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
