Quotes of: Idealistic Keyword

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.

William Irwin Thompson

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Alain de Botton

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

Honeysuckle Weeks

The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

Eric Bogosian

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

H. L. Mencken

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

Tim Jackson

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

Sargent Shriver

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Eric Hoffer

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.

Hillary Clinton

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

Charley Reese

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

Martin Parr

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

Trofim Lysenko

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.

Lorraine Hansberry

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Robert Anton Wilson

You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.

Steven Levitt

It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

Patch Adams

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Irving Babbitt

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

Carl Sandburg