Top Idealism Quotes
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck
Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?
Rod Blagojevich
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
Robert Shea
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.
H. L. Mencken
Over the past decade... 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.
Anita Roddick
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck 
63% of people like this quote
Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?
Rod Blagojevich
61% of people like this quote
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
Robert Shea
58% of people like this quote
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.
H. L. Mencken
58% of people like this quote
Over the past decade... 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.
Anita Roddick
57% of people like this quote
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.
Don Henley
57% of people like this quote
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
Henry Cabot Lodge
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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
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A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.
David Talbot
56% of people like this quote
Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.
Rosa Luxemburg
56% of people like this quote
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H. L. MenckenBertrand RussellAldous HuxleyRichard M. NixonCarl JungKarl KrausAlfred North WhiteheadPearl S. BuckHubert H. HumphreyGermaine GreerSargent ShriverHerbert HooverMikhail BakuninHenry Cabot LodgeLafcadio Hearn
David TalbotWilliam F. Buckley, Jr.Don HenleyJohn Buchanan RobinsonAnita RoddickRobert SheaJosiah RoyceJacques BarzunMorris Raphael CohenBill Moyers BonoJames CarvilleDick MorrisWilliam Irwin ThompsonDominic Chianese
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