Quotes About Idealism

The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Let him have his dreams and believe in love and romance. Suppose we all do deep down if we thought about being honest.

Shahid was the free spirit of the Kamal family: a dreamer, an idealist, a wanderer on the face of the earth--or, as Ahmed would put it, a lazy fuckwit.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one

Everybody's a dreamer.

No just cause is futile, even if it's lost, if it helps make the future better than the past.

Strike two for Utopia. The problem with the damned things always comes when you try to introduce actual people into your philosophical constructs.

People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is it? They're hopeful and good - and that's how it should be.

God, I love young people," Harmon said. "They get griped about enough. People like to think the young generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is it? They're hopeful and good - and that's how it should be.

Bildungsroman. It is a narrative of a young man steeped in Wilsonism who became intimately involved in the conference and who learned that his hero was not the man he thought he was.

moja ojczyzna powstaje!... Wol? j? ogl?da? siedz?c?... [Pi?tnastoletni Arthur Rimbaud w li?cie do Georgesa Izambard z 25 sierpnia 1870]

On n'est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans.

enamoré de la democracia, ¿qué le parece?… Pero es una mujer que paga mal.

I wanted to do journalism, as I was an idealist. Then, in my second year of journalism, I realized that in real life, things don't work the way you expect them to. I realized that I could express my ideas better through films.

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.

The common belief is that you are either a dreamer or a realist. But idealism and pragmatism aren't as far apart as one might think.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.

The 'Dezeen's of this world are extremely inspirational but have no realistic dimension any more.

I've never been very practical or realistic - I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it?