Idealism Quotes - Page 12

• School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.

  Troy Garity

  Depressing, Art, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

  Troy Garity

  Mother, Cnn, Understanding

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

  Lauren Groff

  Desire, Intense, Better Life

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• It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.

  Raymond Williams

  Names, Intellectual, Needs

  Raymond Williams (2013). “Loyalties”, p.331, Random House

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• There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will quickly choke its competitors to death, and the fencerow rose will just as quietly crowd out any other plant that tried to share its roothold. Idealism and mercy are human terms and human concepts.

  Hal Borland

  Morning, Nature, Compassion

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• Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.

  Richard Stallman

  Fun, Helping Others, People

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Alistair Cooke

  Country, Race, America

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• I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence. In such an atmosphere, why bother aiming high? Far too many people don't. I just want to reassure people to have the courage to persevere, to keep following their hearts even when others scoff. Don't be beaten down by naysayers. Don't let the odds scare you from even trying.

  Howard Schultz

  Courage, Heart, Odds

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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

  Philosophy, Two, Philosopher

  The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 7, p. 407, 1910.

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• In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Modern, Idealism And Realism, Interpretation

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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

  Change, Political, Frustrated

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  We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

  Joe Biden

  Fire, America, Promise

  "Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption". Book by Joe Biden, October 5, 2010.

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• Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.

  M. Scott Peck

  Believe, People, Essentials

  M. Scott Peck (1983). “People of the Lie”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

  Christopher Dawson

  Strong, League, Enlightenment

  Christopher Dawson (2010). “The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.94, CUA Press

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• I think the most important thing is [to] restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism in state government. Bring to the job a desire to really make things happen and help people and give confidence back to the public.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

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• I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be, but striving toward it as an ideal is! It is in the act of 'striving' that we demonstrate character, courage, and conscience.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Character, Perfect, Trying

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• The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

  Bertrand Russell

  Imagination, Poverty, Logic

  "Our Knowledge of the External World". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 9, 1914.

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• Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.

  Dan B. Allender

  Heart, Humility, Loss

  Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.133, WaterBrook

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• To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

  Greg Hartley

  Fashion, Women, Opportunity

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• The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions. We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, Government, Years

  "Excerpts From Goldwater Remarks". Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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• I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.

  Catherine Breillat

  Passion, Mean, Dark

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• Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

  John Wooden

  Hard Work, Add, Realism

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• Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.

  Michael Arditti

  Smart, School, Nurse

  Michael Arditti (1996). “Pagan and Her Parents”

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• Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

  Simon Sinek

  Innovation, Done, Imagine

  Twitter post from Aug 08, 2011

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• The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Citizens, Treasure

  Herbert Hoover (1951). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950”

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