I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?" The First Lord stared at her… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were… — Eric Hoffer 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
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of… — Richard M. Weaver 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
I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy… — Aleister Crowley 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
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. Compromise is not popular. It's not at all… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Do you ever think you're being an idealist? Do you ever wonder if you're holding out for something that doesn't exist? I'm… — Karyn Bosnak Copy Share Image
It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic"… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I think the folks who joined Jim Jones's church did so because they truly believed in his stated ideals of racial equality… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
“What you don't know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.' — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
