Idealism Quotes
I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.
Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.
My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.
My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.
Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.
The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.
Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengabdian buta.
Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.
Most of the time we are too critical to ourselves that we don't see worth in small achievements and feel I could done better. Stop Being Hard to Yourself.
Never choose between your heart or brain. Neither instincts nor anything perfectly planned is always right. Follow what heart says but let brain accompany it.
The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.
Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.
A man is always devoted to something more tangible than a woman - the idea of her.
In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.
our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life
The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.
In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.
Two types of leaders: there are thinkers and there are doers. Some are idea generators and others are the implementers.
Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle—that is, being human.
the real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent...
I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
Idealistic notions that guide a younger person frequently prove unsustainable. Concluding any stage of life demands that a person rebuilds oneself after living destroys our ideological beliefs.
Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.
All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.
What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday.
He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.
Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.
The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.(from The structure of desire and recognition)
It's always the lesser of two evils.''I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.'-Connor
