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
Jacques Barzun 
John Foster Dulles 
Sargent Shriver 
Claude McKay 
Don Henley 
Neil Kinnock 
Pearl S. Buck 
Rod Blagojevich 
Henry Cabot Lodge 
Dominic Chianese 
David Talbot 
Mikhail Bakunin All Idealism Quotes
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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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
James Carville
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Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
Claude McKay
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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
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It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.
Morris Raphael Cohen
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The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
Sargent Shriver
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In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
John Buchanan Robinson
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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Shirley Chisholm
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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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