Quotes About Idealism

Be it at JNU or any institute, students want India to shine. They want the country to get rid of mediocrity and hypocrisy.

The simple truth is that nowhere in human history is there another man who combined so uniquely and effectively in his person both the idealist and realist factors as did Mu?ammad (Peace be upon him)

I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.

Be very wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.)

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

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

I know idealism is not playing on the radio right now, you don't see it on TV, irony is on heavy rotation, the knowingness, the smirk, the tired joke. I've tried them all out but I'll tell you this ... idealism is under siege beset by materialism, narcissism and all the other isms of indifference. Baggism, Shaggism. Raggism. Notism, graduationism, chismism, I don't know. Where's John Lennon when you need him?

The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

Saul Strauss used to be what Gavin would consider committed and passionate in a namby-pamby, Kumbaya-like, eco-green, granola-y, unrealistic sort of way, but more and more, the Sauls of the world had raised their rhetoric to the dangerously hysterical

The tragic sense of life in Don Quixote is also the faith of Moby Dick. Ahab is a monomaniac; so is the kindlier Quixote, but both are tormented idealists who seek justice in human terms, not as theocentric men but as ungodly, godlike men.

Our educational institutions are thronged these days by idealistic resenters who denounce competition in literature as in life, but the aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to all the ancient Greeks, and to Burckhardt and Nietzsche, who recovered this truth.

We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something—with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.

I'm not going to believe in any damned revolution. Love is all I'm going to believe in.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Het is goedkoop als wij, die het woord 'veiligheid' allang als een schim uit ons vocabulaire hebben weggestreept, de optimistische waanvoorstelling van die door idealisme verblinde generatie nu belachelijk maken, het geloof dat de technische vooruitgang van de mensheid beslist een even snelle morele ontwikkeling ten gevolge moet hebben.

I want to introduce you to Jay, a 'bus-conductor and an idealist. She is not the heroine, but the most constantly apparent woman in this book. I cannot introduce you to a heroine because I have never met one.

I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

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

Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth.

We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.

They were utopian, which meant they saw imperfection everywhere they looked.