Chaos Quote by William Irwin Thompson

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

— E. M. Forster

If you live under a system that claims to have high ideals but seems ineradicably opposed to your own people's flourishing, the desire for…

— Ross Douthat

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

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

— George Bernard Shaw

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

— George Bernard Shaw

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

— Henry David Thoreau

Idealism has devolved into madness.

— Ralph Peters

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

— Bertrand Russell

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too…

— Doris Lessing

Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

— Sarah Vowell

“Fanatics.” Mircea sounded disgusted. “She called them utopians.” “Same thing under a different name.” “She said they could be dangerous—” “They always are. Anyone…

— Karen Chance

“We cannot embrace radical idealism,”

— Kaiten Nukariya