Idealism Quotes
246 quotes by 208 authors
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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
— Joe Biden
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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend…
— Bono
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
— George Carlin
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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
— James Carville
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience…
— William Ellery Channing
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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
— Shirley Chisholm
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Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I…
— Nick Clegg
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The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
— Rem Koolhaas
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Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of…
— Oscar Niemeyer
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It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words,…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When…
— Lorrie Moore
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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
— Jacques Barzun
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We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
— Jack Kornfield
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The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
— Neil Kinnock
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...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity -…
— Mairead Corrigan
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A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing,…
— Norman Mailer
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If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident.…
— Albert Schweitzer
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