Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me -… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal… — Harper Lee 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
War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity,… — William McFee Copy Share Image
Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers --… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and… — Jurgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must. — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...' — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
These Utopian idealists like the Clintons who think they really do have the answers. They think they're following the best minds of… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
