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Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?
— Rod Blagojevich
Miller watched a little piece of the man's idealism die and was sorry that it gave him joy. So
— James S.A. Corey
I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
— Vernon A. Walters
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.
— Don Henley
The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.
— Margaret Atwood
Idealism has devolved into madness.
— Ralph Peters
In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.
— Sharon Salzberg
We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.
— Oliver Stone
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Two types of leaders: there are thinkers and there are doers. Some are idea generators and others are the implementers.
— Gary Rohrmayer
The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don't come true.
— David Brooks
The delegates to the peace conference after World War I tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world.
— Margaret MacMillan
The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.
— Ronald Reagan
From childish fear springs the desire to externalise the ego.
— Bertrand Russell
He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
He mingled idleness and idealism so that he could not separate them.
— W. Somerset Maugham
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.
— Prince Charles
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
— James C. Collins
How oft the warmth of the sun aboveMakes a pretty young girl dream of love. — Gustave Flaubert
Watching him, Juliana thought, It's idealism that makes him that bitter. Asking too much out of life. Always moving on, restless and griped.
— Philip K. Dick
The Revolution was a lesson in the power of evil to replace idealism, and Bonaparte was its ideal pupil.
— Paul Johnson
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
— Sargent Shriver
It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.
— Stephen Kinzer
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
— Rem Koolhaas
You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.
— Jon Stewart
In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force
— Angela Carter
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
— Calvin Coolidge
All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.
— Harold Bloom
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.
— Douglas Brinkley
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
— Claude McKay
Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
— Abigail Washburn
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
— Bruce Springsteen
Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.
— Carew Papritz
I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.
— William Hazlitt
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.
— George Carlin
Idealistic world views should be our focus.
— Sunday Adelaja
There is no realism without an element of idealism.
— Henry A. Kissinger
All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.
— Arthur Koestler
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
— Billy Corgan
Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.
— Mark Dery
As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.
— Susan Neiman
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.
— John Wooden
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
— Jonathan Franzen
Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.
— Todd Garlington
Our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life
— Erich Maria Remarque
We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ron Suskind
Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.
— Desmond Seward
Philosophic concepts are a form of sentiment. Conflicts between lofty ideas and vouchsafed values are endemic for any thinking person.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
— Susan Neiman
Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.
— John Charles Chasteen
Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
God save me from idealists.
— Jim Butcher
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
— Henry Cabot Lodge
Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while
— Anne Lamott
The actual well seen is ideal.
— Thomas Carlyle
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
— Lauren Groff
Economy is idealism in its most practical form.
— Calvin Coolidge
I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.
— Toba Beta
Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.
— Lewis Mumford
Idealism + Inaction = Depression
— Oli Anderson
Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
— Mary Parker Follett
I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.
— Arthur Scargill
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.
— Oscar Wilde
To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.
— Gregory Hartley
I'm an idealistwho has outgrown
my idealism
I have nothing to do
the rest of my life
but do it
and the rest of my life
to do it — Jack Kerouac
The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.
— Paullina Simons
Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.
— A.J. Darkholme
What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday.
— John Mark Reynolds
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.
— Richard M. Nixon
Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
— Bertrand Russell
It's always the lesser of two evils.''I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.'
-Connor — Neal Shusterman
I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
— Criss Jami
