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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. -- William Irwin Thompson
Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will. -- Minnie Maddern Fiske
You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy. -- John Zorn
Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path. -- Andy Hertzfeld
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. -- Paul Nurse
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When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish. -- Anurag Kashyap
It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things. -- Tom DeLonge
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests. -- Charley Reese
I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a relationship. -- Sonam Kapoor
Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap. -- Bobby Seale
Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda. -- Martin Parr
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. -- Woodrow Wilson
I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region. -- Shah Rukh Khan
So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things. -- Thom Yorke
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. -- Frank Gehry
To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. -- Barbara Cartland
It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model. -- Patch Adams
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
This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue. -- Paulo Coelho
It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people. -- Olivier Martinez
There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies. -- James Wolcott
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people. -- Sonia Sotomayor
War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Mapping does not purport to create an idealistic vision where all teachers agree, love one another, and gather around a campfire and sing 'Curriculum Kumbaya.' What it can develop is a sense of place, of respect, and of new grounds for discussion, disputes, and direction. -- Heidi Hayes Jacobs
I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world. -- Maurice Saatchi
I guess maybe I'm idealistic. -- John Cusack
We're all idealistic when young. -- Pat Oliphant
It was an idealistic vision that generation had. -- Mat Hoffman
America is the only idealistic nation in the world. -- Woodrow Wilson
You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy -- John Zorn
In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world. -- Emilio Estevez
In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world." -- Emilio Estevez
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. -- Gordon Getty
Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo. -- Shane Claiborne
We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness -- Jimmy Carter
Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression. -- Albert Einstein
Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do. -- Maggie Gallagher
All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people. -- Paul Theroux
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money. -- Raymond Chandler
The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator. -- Paul LePaul
Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. -- James C. Collins
...I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17... -- John Geddes
We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear. -- John Lennon
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching. -- Trofim Lysenko
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time. -- Jon Lee Anderson
I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic. -- Nadya Suleman
Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run. -- Desmond Tutu
An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover. -- Kedar Joshi
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice. -- Irving Babbitt
I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic. -- Aisha Tyler
If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall. -- Shunryu Suzuki
When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office. -- William J. Clinton
The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims. -- William Howard Taft
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm idealistic so my life outlook is to never give up. Even if something seems absolutely impossible, I will run as hard as I can go. -- Choi Minho
I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you. -- PJ Harvey
I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous. -- John Mackey
That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself. -- Marilyn Manson
For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do. -- Bernie Sanders
I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic. -- Eric Bogosian
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions. -- Margaret Thatcher
In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself. -- Kehinde Wiley
We all have our individual romantic or idealistic ideas. To get information that masturbation is our basic form of sex is hard, because who wants to admit they're masturbating? -- Betty Dodson
I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know, whether it's cults or whether it's suicide bombers. -- Emma Donoghue
I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them. -- Tom Petty
Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal. -- Tom Wolfe
Reaching your potential is not simply about dreaming or being idealistic, It is a process that involve specific actions, exercises, discipline and hard work. It is challenging, rewarding and unending. -- Robert S. Kaplan
It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex. -- Margot Kidder
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. -- Frank Gehry
We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war. -- Shane Claiborne
Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic . -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic. -- Terry Eagleton
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Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good. -- James Wolcott
I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing. -- David Lloyd
The old idealistic republicans used to found democracy on the idea that all men were equally intelligent. Believe me, the sane and enduring democracy is founded on the fact that all men are equally idiotic." -- G.K. Chesterton
Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation. -- Adolf Hitler
An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful. -- Henryk Sienkiewicz
The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously, are civilians, and they tend to distrust, and to suspect, the military's motives. -- Mark Riebling

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