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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

In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed. — Bruce Crown

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

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. — Danny Strong

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

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation. — Simon Sinek

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism. — Ronald Reagan

When that time come, nobody will care for each other.
You don't have to prove me wrong, you'll need that energy. — Toba Beta

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 above
Makes 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

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. — Karl Kraus

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

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. — William Hague

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

It was idealism that made him so angry. He expected too much out of life. — Milan Kundera

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

Idealism, however impractical, gives a meaning to our existence. — Anirban Bose

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

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? — Edith Wharton

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

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. — Mikhail Bakunin

Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people. — Jo Walton

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

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. — John Galsworthy

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

I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian. — Joy Davidman

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 idealist
who 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

Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place. — Sung Kang

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left. — Paullina Simons

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference. — Joe Biden

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. — Alain De Botton

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

Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. — Ayn Rand

Idealism misconstrues agency, implying the capacity to bring about influence where that capacity may not exist or where it may only be weak. — James Davison Hunter