Quotes About Idealism

History has shown us the strength and durability of the human spirit, In the end, it is our idealism and our courage and our commitment to one another--what we have in common--that will save us.

We've gone through bad times before and survived, even thrived. History has shown us the strength and durability of the human spirit. In the end, it is our idealism and our courage and our commitment to one another—what we have in common—that will save us.

Jack believed in things and fought to make the world a better place. He was the kind of man a girl could count on.

She is so certain of everything. This war is black and white for her. Nothing seems to scare her.

Ya hemos pasado por malos tiempos antes y hemos sobrevivido, prosperado incluso. La historia nos demuestra la fortaleza y la perdurabilidad del espíritu humano. Al final, nuestro idealismo, nuestro valor y nuestro compromiso con los demás, con lo que nos une, nos salvarán. En estos tiempos sombríos podemos recurrir a la historia, al legado de aquella generación extraordinaria y a nuestro pasado para sacar fuerzas.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Der Satiriker ist ein gekränkter Idealist: er will die Welt gut haben, sie ist schlecht, und nun rennt er gegen das Schlechte hin.

There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge

I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary'. it's dark and tormented - the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.

Like many compositions of its kind - all muscles, square jaws and sunshine - it is stronger on the socialism than the reality

But Fin would always be a bit of a romantic, at least when it came to books.

L'amour n'est il pas issu de l'esprit ? N'est il pas une émotion, un reflet de nous-même que l'on saisit dans le regarde de l'autre ? N'est il pas idéalisme, sublimation, adulation ? En vérité, si l'on pouvait aimer sans imaginer l'autre autrement qu'il n'est vraiment, j'aurais peut-être moins peur de l'amour. ~Doña Manuela Vivero

The young can be so unreasonable in what they expect from

Soy un utopista, pero no un loco.

Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts. As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself.

Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts. As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself. Campaign season is the only time of public debate about what we want for the future. It can change consciousness even more than who gets elected.

Wherever one looks in the realms of creative endeavor, one finds the greatest architecture, music, art, sculpture, drama, ritual placed in the service of non-sense, the exalted realm of the ideal, the possible.

after seeing decades of Maoist campaigns, that idealism mostly resulted in misery. China would be helped only as ordinary citizens went about bettering their own lot

The students who surrendered the square on the morning of June 4 could not begin to imagine, in those sad days of 1989, that their ideas would eventually prevail. They set into motion a chain of events that will one day lead to a free and prosperous China, one better than they could, at that time, imagine—perhaps one better than we can imagine today.

The destruction of ideals, whether those ideals were right or wrong, must also have been a shock to the mind and the heart. Life without idealism is empty indeed. We must have hope as we must have bread; to eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

And then there were our sweet stolen moments in the midst of our work—just a word, or caress, or flash of love-light; and our moments were sweeter for being stolen. For we lived on the heights, where the air was keen and sparkling, where the toil was for humanity, and where sordidness and selfishness never entered. We loved love, and our love was never smirched by anything less than the best. And this out of all remains: I did not fail.

I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both my own feet and the feet of my readers on the ground so that no matter how high we dream our dreams will be based on reality

she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism, without a strong sense of the possible, would represent a very sad state of affairs.

Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends. Any other assessment of the situation is mere idealism.