An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The young and dynamic and idealistic people in the square do not have the chance to organise themselves politically, to be able… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will… — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over… — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
As a youngster, I had friends who became lawyers and doctors, and I was as idealistic as anybody. When I was in… — William Sanderson Copy Share Image
Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do. — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic. — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“As a self described idealistic I never consider myself as single. I like to say that I’m in between romances at the… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
