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
Lafcadio Hearn 
Don Henley 
John Foster Dulles 
Richard M. Nixon 
William Irwin Thompson 
Carl Jung 
John Galsworthy 
Mikhail Bakunin 
Sargent Shriver 
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung 
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley
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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
Jacques Barzun
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Bill Moyers
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Alfred North Whitehead
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The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.
Josiah Royce
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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Sidney Hook
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Popular Idealism Authors
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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