"The opposite of an idealist is too often…" — Albert Camus
"The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love."
More Idealist Quotes
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded… — Irving Babbitt
- I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976.… — Michele Bachmann
- Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of… — Geraldine Brooks
- The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help… — Joyce Brothers
- Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon… — Madeleine Albright
- Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. — George Carlin
- I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. — Hillary Clinton
- The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide. — Unknown Author
- The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing… — Adolf Hitler
- War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and… — Chris Hedges
- Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him. — Woodrow Wilson
- Idealist: a cynic in the making. — Irving Layton