Idealism famous quotes

Happiness too is inevitable.
-- Albert Camus

#Cynicism #Idealism #Inevitable

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

#Imagination #Body #Idealism

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Power #Hatred #Idealism

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#Patriotic #Force #Idealism

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.
-- Danny Strong

#Winning #Election #Idealism

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?
-- Erich Segal

#Heroism #Quiet #Idealism

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

#Idealism

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
-- Joe Biden

#Fire #Our Society #Idealism

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
-- John Buchanan Robinson

#Modern #Interpretation #Idealism

Idealism is the highest form of reason.
-- John Charles Polanyi

#Reason #Form #Idealism

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
-- Lafcadio Hearn

#Art #Idealism #Subjects

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Real #Theory #Idealism

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
-- Mary Parker Follett

#Realism #Idealism

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.
-- Max Ehrmann

#Writing #Disease #Idealism

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

#Tyrants #Idealism

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Enemy #Idealism #Zealotry

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.
-- Paullina Simons

#Gone #Idealism

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Wish #Idealism #Recollection

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
-- Sargent Shriver

#College #Young #Idealism

It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.
-- Stuart Pearson Wright

#Important #Stage #Idealism

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
-- William Hague

#Realism #Idealism #Foreign Policy

You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Dollars #Idealism #Ideals

A dead martyr is just another corpse.
-- Leo Gordon

#Hero #Idealism #Martyr

Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Ideas #Bigs #Idealism

Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.
-- Rick Alverson

#Efficiency #Idealism

I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
-- Vernon A. Walters

#Pragmatists #Idealism #Describe Myself