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

  • We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.

    "Oliver Stone Talks SAVAGES, the Unconventional Ending, and the Hypothetical Fiction of Cartels". Press conference, collider.com. July 2, 2012.
  • In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

  • There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.

    Heart   Simple   Optimism  
    Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd
  • Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

    Art   Temptation   Desire  
    Philip Roth (1998). “I Married a Communist”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.

    Sex   Men   Ideas  
    D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3540, Delphi Classics
  • Over the past decades...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.

    Life   Change   Past  
  • I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

  • Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

    Lying   Fall   Creative  
  • 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.

    Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”
  • Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they ought to be, and are not. Whoso seeks to follow this ideal revealed to the mental vision, whoso seeks to attain to conformity with it, will find it enlarge itself, and remove from him. He that follows it will improve his own moral character, but the ideal will remain always above him and before him, prompting him to new exertions.

    Character   Men   Vision  
    William Batchelder Greene (1872). “The blazing star; with an appendix treating of the Jewish Kabbala, also a tract on the philosophy of H. Spencer, and one on New-England transcendentalism”, p.3
  • The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

  • If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.

  • Gore Vidal said "Nixon is us, we are Nixon." I think we have to acknowledge that combination of idealism and sleaze; we want to be better than we are, and we sometimes don't face up to the real questions.

    Real   Thinking   Want  
    Source: www.rogerebert.com
  • Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?

    Believe   Fighting   Gun  
  • It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.

  • The actual well seen is ideal.

    Idealism   Wells   Ideals  
  • Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.

    Heart   Humility   Loss  
    Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.133, WaterBrook
  • I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin, by a real idealism and an excitement about the possibilities of the intellect and imagination to deal with this somewhat brutal world.

    Source: www.achievement.org
  • Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

  • A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.

    Horse   Fear   Fighting  
    Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”
  • Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

    Realism   Idealism   Ifs  
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.79, University of Chicago Press
  • The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

    Party   America   People  
    Hoover, Herbert (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Herbert Hoover, 1929”, p.554, Best Books on
  • I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

    Writing   Reality   Wish  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

    "Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts". Book by Edmund Fuller, 1948.
  • I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

  • When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

    Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
  • Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.484, Library of America
  • Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

    Love   Men   Pits  
  • Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal.

    Dream   Art   Ideas  
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