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I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.
Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.
Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.
Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.
America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
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.
The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.
There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.
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.
Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.
Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.
It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.
We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.
It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'
One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
The common belief is that you are either a dreamer or a realist. But idealism and pragmatism aren't as far apart as one might think.
Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?
Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.
Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.
It took years of wear and tear before idealism crumbled like so much bric-a-brac.
Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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.
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.
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.
It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.
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 .
To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.
It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.
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.
Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.
Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.
I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.
When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
