Quotes About Idealism

Such are the foolish dreams of idealistic children who believe that anything can possibly get better over time.

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

His aim was the creation of self sufficient small towns,really very nice towns if you were docile and had no plans of your own and did not mind spending your life with others with no plans of their own. As in all Utopias, the right to have plans of any significance belonged only to the planner in charge. - discussing Ebenezer Howards' Garden City

Ideologen sind Leute, die glauben, dass die Menschheit besser sei als der Mensch.

Satire is the antidote to Pollyanna and Dr. Pangloss. It focuses our gaze sharply upon the the contrast between things as they are and as they should be.

Lost causes had a romantic charm for her

Her mind was as destitute of beauty and mystery as the prairie school-house in which she had been educated; and her ideals seemed to Ralph as pathetic as the ornaments made of corks and cigar-bands with which her infant hands had been taught to adorn it. He was beginning to understand this, and learning to adapt himself to the narrow compass of her experience.

But the idealist subdued to vulgar necessities must employ vulgar minds to draw the inferences to which he cannot stoop

The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.

Whether such socialism is foolish naivety or heroic idealism is a matter of opinion, but what is certain is that, however many CDs are sold or tours sold out, the sound waves themselves are free.

I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

I lived in a kind of dream of communism.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience.