Thomas Sowell Quotes About Idealism

Quotes about: Idealism

• Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Intelligent, Ideas, People

  "Random thoughts" by Thomas Sowell, www.jewishworldreview.com. October 17, 2005.

• Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, Self, Opposites

• The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.

  Thomas Sowell

  Selfish, War, Care

• Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

  Thomas Sowell

  Self, Media, People

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