Absolutes Quote by Raymond Williams

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

— James Carville

Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.

— Rick Alverson

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have…

— Charles Kennedy

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

— Claude McKay

I think that idealism is always there in America. It's a spirit that's been subverted lately, and sold down the river to the contractors,…

— Tim Matheson

When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective,…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are…

— Orhan Pamuk

No, I didn't think of myself as an idealist. I consider myself as a believer in what I regard as the Labour Party's basic…

— Glenda Jackson

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

— Anais Nin

When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's…

— Conor Oberst

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

— George Friedman