Philosophy Quote by Nelson DeMille

“Someone said that revolutions are begun by idealists and ended by the scoundrels who destroy the idealists.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“We cannot embrace radical idealism,”

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Idealists mature badly. If they can’t outgrow their idealism, they become hypocrites or blind.”

— Brent Weeks

“Any discussion between idealist and realist would never end.”

— Toba Beta

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence.”

— Joseph Heller

“Idealism is the cradle for change. One cannot make something new without first envisioning the possibility.”

— Molly Collier

“He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One could sympathize.”

— John Gardner

“You know that inside every cynic, there’s just a very disappointed idealist?”

— Roe Horvat

“For many, his reference to the work of a transcendent mind merely demonstrated that he was unable to abandon an outmoded idealistic approach.”

— Stephen C. Meyer

“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.”

— Joshua Ferris

“Idealism, however impractical, gives a meaning to our existence.”

— Anirban Bose