Idealistic Quotes

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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice. — Irving Babbitt
To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that… — Barbara Cartland
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests. — Charley Reese
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money. — Raymond Chandler
I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some… — Tom Petty
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
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.
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can… — Jack Kornfield
So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them… — Thomas Sowell
The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we… — C.S. Lewis
I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was… — Eric Bogosian
In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world. — Emilio Estevez
I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy — John Zorn
Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do. — Maggie Gallagher
It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were… — Margot Kidder
We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By… — Scot McKnight

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