Quotes About Idealism

Man of Tomorrow," my ass. Try "Man of the nineteen-fifties!

there's the right kind of unrealistic and the wrong kind of unrealistic.

In a way, everyone was a Don Quixote, their heads alive with plots and characters, even if they didn't act on them directly.

The extreme idealist or formalist thinks of language in terms of how completely it represents the tiger, and since it can never fully get that right, would rather lapse into silence than speak.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

The happy ending is our national belief.

Nora wanted to live in a world where no cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had available to her were worlds with humans in them.

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

At De Pauw I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it I did the thing in life I wanted to do—Writing.

An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!

I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch." I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.

There's no such thing as Atticus Finch.' I shrug. 'It'd be good if there was, though.

Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we'll always have more to give.

Why does man insist on trying to make his Utopia in the midst of a battleground?

Quienes ensalzan el ideal meritocrático y lo convierten en el centro de su proyecto político pasan por alto esta cuestión moral, pero también ignoran algo más poderoso desde el punto de vista político: las actitudes muy poco atractivas (desde la perspectiva moral) que la ética meritocrática fomenta, tanto entre los ganadores como entre los perdedores. Entre los primeros promueve la soberbia; entre los segundos, la humillación y el resentimiento.

Cynicism is romanticism turned sour.

The famous Don Quixote de la Mancha, other wise called the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.

In deifying human things the idealists always end in the triumph of a brutal materialism. And this for a very simple reason: the divine evaporates and rises to its own country, heaven, while the brutal alone remains actually on earth.

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

The idealism and adorability of Rob Lowe and Bradley Whitford had made me long for a civic-minded beau who is constantly making long, important speeches and taking principled stands.

Cause that's all I want. A sweet, mature, normal, loving guy, with no baggage. And who has an absolutely enormous penis.