quotes about Idealism
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Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
-- Anais Nin -
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
-- Bertrand Russell -
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
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Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.
-- Danny Strong -
Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?
-- Erich SegalSource : Erich Segal (2014). “The Class”, p.517, Bantam
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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
-- James Carville -
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
-- Joe Biden -
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In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
-- John Buchanan Robinson -
Idealism is the highest form of reason.
-- John Charles Polanyi -
Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
-- Mary Parker Follett -
I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.
-- Max EhrmannSource : Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.4, Souvenir Press Ltd
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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
-- Mikhail Bakunin -
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The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.
-- Paullina Simons -
Wishes are recollections coming from the future.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
-- Sargent Shriver -
It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.
-- Stuart Pearson Wright -
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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
-- William Hague -
You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
-- Austin O'Malley -
A dead martyr is just another corpse.
-- Leo GordonSource : "Fictional character: Major Craig". "Tobruk", www.imdb.com. 1967.
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Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
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Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.
-- Rick Alverson -
I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
-- Vernon A. Walters