Idealism Quotes

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

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

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

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

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat!

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

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.