Idealistic Quotes
96 quotes by 87 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
— Raymond Chandler
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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.
— Emilio Estevez
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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
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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
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You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy
— John Zorn
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Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.
— Maggie Gallagher
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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
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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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