Idealist Quotes
132 Idealist quotes by 114 unique authors
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
— Irving Babbitt
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I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were…
— Michele Bachmann
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table,…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.
— Joyce Brothers
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this…
— Madeleine Albright
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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
— George Carlin
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I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
— Hillary Clinton
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The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.
— Unknown Author
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The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever…
— Adolf Hitler
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War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.
— Chris Hedges
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Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
— Irving Layton
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
— Malcolm De Chazal
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...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality…
— Ayn Rand
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There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will…
— Hal Borland
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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker…
— Henry Miller
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The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.
— Scott Belsky
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Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.
— H. L. Mencken
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What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.
— Jane Rogers
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I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's…
— Studs Terkel
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I am an idealist. I believe in everything — I am only looking for proofs.
— Carl Sandburg
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The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive
— John Zorn
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