Desire Quote by Ross Douthat

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

— Brennan Manning

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the…

— Michael Haneke

The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

— Steve Earle

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

— Henry Cabot Lodge

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

— Rem Koolhaas

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

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

— Claude McKay

Human life isn't about ideals. It's a compromise, and occasionally it's boring.

— David Starkey

“We cannot embrace radical idealism,”

— Kaiten Nukariya

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

— Bertrand Russell

When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time…

— Anurag Kashyap