Best 226 quotes in «idealism quotes» category

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

You're an idealist. The idealists are always the revolutionaries, the cat's paws. Then the realists consolidate, compromise and liquidate the opposition.

You're the medium Weed and I use to communicate, that's all, this set of holes, pleasantly framed, this little femme scampering back and forth with scented messages tucked in her little secret places." She was too young then to understand what he thought he was offering her, a secret about power in the world. That's what he thought it was. Brock was young then too. She only took it as some parable about his feelings for her, one she didn't exactly understand but covered for with the wide invincible gaze practiced by many sixties children, meaning nearly anything at all, useful in a lot of situations, including ignorance.

You see, Risa, survival is a dance between our needs and our consciences. When the need is great enough, and the music loud enough, we can stomp conscience into the ground.' Risa closes her eyes. She knows the dance... 'It's the way of the world,' Divan continues. 'Look at unwinding, society's grand gavotte of denial. There will, no doubt, come a time when people look to one another and say, 'My God, what have we done?' But I don't believe it will happen any time soon. Until then, the dance must have music; the chorus must have its voice. Give it that voice, Risa. Play for me.' But Risa's fingers offer him nothing, and the Orgao Organico holds the obdurate, unyielding silence of the grave.

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.

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

Don't look back, you can never look back

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

Happiness too is inevitable.

I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Idealism has devolved into madness.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.

Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in American life, that '60s sense of optimism and hope.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

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

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

There is no realism without an element of idealism.