Quotes About Idealism

I think that we want to believe in Superman.

Superman' was created at a time when we needed some idealistic, perfect person to aspire to, which is why he is so flawless.

I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.

I think my mother has always understood what a romantic idealist I am, so she's never had trouble supporting what might be aberrant behavior to others.

I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.

Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible. Perfectionists can find fault with anything, and no one has higher standards in this regard than leftists.

On Jane Austen] She was fully possessed of the idealism which is a necessary ingredient of the great satirist. If she criticized the institutions of earth, it was because she had very definite ideas regarding the institutions of heaven.

Yes, of course we were pretentious—what else is youth for?

He applauded their idealism. And yes, music might be immortal, but composers alas are not.

Dicho de otra forma. Yo tenía diecinueve años y sabía que el amor era incorruptible, a prueba del tiempo y del deterioro.

When you're young—when I was young—you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality.

He did not want to make himself into a dramatic character. But sometimes, as his mind skittered in the small hours, he thought: so this is what history has come to. All that striving and idealism and hope and progress and science and art and conscience, and it all ends like this, with a man standing by a lift, at his feet a small case containing cigarettes, underwear and tooth powder; standing there and waiting to be taken away.

When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives

Právo máme ve skute?nosti jen tehdy, máme-li zárove? moc za nÄ› bojovat. Tam, kde je naprostá bezmocnost, je pouze možnost na ideální právo duchovnÄ› apelovat.

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.