Quotes About Idealism

To right, the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from a-far, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star.

I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.

You know me, I love lost causes.

I would love to have been born in the 60s.

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

El idealista perfecto sería romántico a los veinte años y estoico a los cincuenta; es tan anormal el estoicismo en la juventud como el romanticismo en la edad madura. Lo que al principio enciende su pasión, debe cristalizarse después en suprema dignidad: ésa es la lógica de su temperamento.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good.

Distant countries, heroic deeds and beautiful women spun around in our turbulent dream.

I do not know how I stand this parting from Molly, save that by a paradox we are so absolutely one that in the sense we never part, but talk to one another and watch one another and commune night and day, and grip fast the same ideals. The North Star is our only meeting place, in this manner. We both look at it every night. A 1915 letter written to his aunt in regards to his wife Molly Childers.

Lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

In an ideal world, the 'Daily Mail' would write about what a brilliant mother I am. But it's not going to happen.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Anything I do must have a line of idealism.

I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.

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

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.

I'm an idealist.

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

I am kind of an idealist but I became a DUP member because I believe politics should have a footing in harsh reality.