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True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake. — Henry Williamson

Idealists are either blind or clowns; because they think it is possible to have a beautiful world with asshole creatures like humans. — M.F. Moonzajer

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists. — Mikhail Gorbachev

We're automatons in a symphony conducted by a lunatic and performed by blind idealists. Damon — Eleni Papanou

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer — Errol Flynn

Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World. — Ameen Rihani

Too often people view idealists as naive. — Jacqueline Novogratz

We are all born idealists, until life fucks us all. — M.F. Moonzajer

But idealists of course are unpredictable. They tend to be the ones who turn bitter overnight, deceived by lies they've told themselves. — Don DeLillo

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. — Hillary Clinton

Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards. — Alain De Botton

We're all idealists, all materialists; and the final judgment or label is simply a matter of ideology, or, if you prefer, of political commitment. — Fredric Jameson

He looked older, harder, perhaps wiser. The Middle East was like that. It turned hope to despair, idealists into Machiavellians. — Daniel Silva

Disarming an idealist was easy — Viet Thanh Nguyen

The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists. — Marty Rubin

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned. — Susan Wiggs

Idealists mature badly. If they can't outgrow their idealism, they become hypocrites or blind. — Brent Weeks

Reality is what people who lack vision see. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. — Emma Goldman

We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women. — Jessie Daniel Ames

God save me from idealists. — Jim Butcher

Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. — Lorraine Hansberry

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall. — Josh Lanyon

In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find. — Sun Yat-sen

There were moments when Szara suspected that many idealists drawn to Communism were, at heart, people with an appetite for clandestine life. — Alan Furst

Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires. — Ludwig Boltzmann

A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions. — A.J.P. Taylor

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt ... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. — Robert Anton Wilson

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

America: A place where Realists have the freedom to be Idealists. — Dortha Jackson

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

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive. — John Zorn

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must. — Tim Jackson

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. — Jonathan Franzen

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. — Logan Pearsall Smith

What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar. — Jane Rogers

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1). — Shane Claiborne

Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline. — Scott Belsky

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17 ... — John Geddes

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

Opportunists are promoted, realists are co-opted, idealists are frightened and radicals are shot. — Heather Marsh

War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians. — Chris Hedges

There aren't many idealists in politics. — Evelyn Anthony

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations. — Nellie L. McClung

We are dissatisfied because we are idealists. We — Anton Chekhov

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic ... — Bob Woodward

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression. — Swami Vivekananda

Thus we kept on like true idealists, rejecting the evidence of our senses — Henry David Thoreau

Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world ... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists. — Patricia C. Wrede

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

Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins. — Mary McCarthy

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case. — Rebecca MacKinnon