Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any given place. But the experience in the Balkans re...
...I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never come to fruition.
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very...
Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble s...
I'm an idealist without illusions.
Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.
The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
We're all idealistic when young.
You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
