There aren’t many idealists
There aren’t many idealists in politics. Evelyn Anthony
Idealist
Man’s indecency to man
Man’s indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer Errol Flynn
The great crimes of
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power. Eric Hoffer
The leader has to
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. Eric Hoffer
Idealists foolish enough to
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. Emma Goldman
First, I was an
First, I was an idealist (that was early – fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I’ll become a humorist. Ellen Glasgow
Man is by nature
Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the \”establishment\” which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than … Read more
Honor to the idealists,
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness. Edwin … Read more
One way of saying
One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in a philosophic sense is to look between the two great extremes: the idealist philosophy that says mind and consciousness is the only thing and that matter is simply an illusion, or a Maya, … Read more
All idealists imagine that
All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings. Friedrich Nietzsche