Quotes About Idealism

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.

I think maybe I'm just a little too optimistic? I hope for the best in every situation and want to see the good in people.

I'm blindingly optimistic. Ravingly optimistic.

I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.

Samuel Sharpe's movement was different: resistance on a dazzling scale. It was well organized, spread across a wide geographic area and inspired by Baptist salvation thinking. More than 30,000 enslaved people were eventually brought into a plot rooted in nonviolent idealism that anticipated 20th century movements such as those led by Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the proponents of liberation theology in Latin America.

Sharpe's] only goal had been to make people free, he said, and what had been a peaceful movement had spun out of control. But he remained defiant to the end about the idealism of his cause, if not the means. 'I would rather die upon yonder gallows than live in slavery!' he said. Belby reported that Sharpe's frame expanded, his spine stiffened, and his eyes seemed to 'shoot forth rays of light' when he said this.

Say what you like about those starry-eyed souls, about the upheaval and destruction they always leave in their wake, but there is one thing about romantics that nobody can deny. They never settle for second best

La juventud no está hecha para el placer, sino para el heroísmo

He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.

a powerful account of an idealistic man's campaign to bring change to Africa, at a time when I was a schoolteacher in the African bush.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

From Spanish conquistadores to the propagandists for the American Way of Life, the New World has been hymned as a potential paradise. The paradise that the Middle Ages had sought became secularized as the land of unlimited possibilities.

It was the doomed competition with photography that had led painting to lose its ways in the mindless transcription of reality. Admittedly the scorn for realism had been a traditional theme of premodern art theory, often mapped onto onto a geographic distinction. The direct imitation of reality was the northern European weakness, a limitation to be countered by an idealism cultivated in the Mediterranean realm.

How good it must feel to stand for something. To commit oneself to a lost cause. To gather with other like-minded souls and lock arms and sing songs under the stars. Wallowing in futility. Championing it, actually. How wonderful it must be to fight only losing battles. How safe and how comfortable. To posit yourself squarely on the side of peace and good. How brave the sand on an eroding beach.

Aku tidak begitu memikirkan benda-benda duniawi seperti uang. Hanya orang yang tak pernah menghirup apinya nasionalisme dapat larut dalam hal-hal sepele seperti itu. Kemerdekaan adalah makanan yang membuat aku hidup. Ideologi, idealisme. Makanan dari jiwa. Semua inilah makananku. Aku sendiri hidup dalam kekurangan, tapi apa salahnya? Bekerja sama dengan partaiku dan rakyatku menuju kemerdekaan, untuk semua itulah aku hidup.

Orang kiri adalah mereka yang menghendaki perubahan kekuasaan kapitalis yang ada, orde imperialistis. Keinginan untuk menyebarkan paham keadilan sosial adalah kiri. Dia tak perlu komunistis. Seseorang yang memiliki idealisme seperti itu adalah seorang kiri. Bahkan orang kiri tampak aneh bila bersama orang komunis.