I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth. — Isadora Duncan 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
In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. — Teresa Heinz Copy Share Image
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage. — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“If you ask me, my ideal would be the society based on liberty, equality and fraternity. An ideal society should be mobile… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The common belief is that you are either a dreamer or a realist. But idealism and pragmatism aren't as far apart as… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace or creed or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You see something very important is happening. Personality is being eaten out, and with that the idealism that always motivated an anarchist… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
Most actors will tell you this - I don't really know how to connect, empathize with, or make worthy of any revelation… — Jeff Perry Copy Share Image
Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
There's no reason to assume that my idea of what's better would really be better. I resent it when other people try… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“Something died in the American people on November 22, 1963—call it idealism, innocence or the quest for moral excellence. It is the… — James Shelby Downard Copy Share Image
I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather… — George Santayana 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
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
“My generation failed to change the world, but at least I did not let the world change me.” — Chronis Missios Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. — Claude McKay Copy Share Image
Just because you don't fit society's standards of beautiful, doesn't mean YOU aren't beautiful. — Rachel Marie Meyer Copy Share Image
Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death — Anais Nin 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
Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary. — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance. — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“...the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent...” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian.” — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
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