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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
