Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows.
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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
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We are missing something. Our youth today is empty. No longer do the children dream and believe they can change the world. Apathy has destroyed the beautiful idealism of our youth. The intricate illusions and fearless aspirations. The gleam in a child's eye. God help us. All hope is truly lost.
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Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.
World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.
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The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
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Idealists.. Foolish enough to throw caution to the winds.. Have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
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Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
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It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.
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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
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Only the broken-hearted idealist can become a cynic.
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Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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