We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
If a person is plagued by religious doubts,as many are in their youth, he takes to persecuting unbelievers; if troubled by love, he turns it into marriage; and when overcome by some other enthusiasm, he takes refuge from the impossibility of living c...
For him morality was neither conformism nor philosophic wisdom, but living the infinite fullness of possibilities. He believed in morality’s capacity for intensification, in stages of moral experience, and not merely, as most people do, in stages o...
When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental...
Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.
It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.
In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.
A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
My ideal prom date would have to be cute, funny, sweet, nice.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.
Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.
I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.
Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.
