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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. -- Emma Goldman
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. -- Emma Goldman
Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine. -- Grant Morrison
The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is beyond weird. Out of sheerest Emptiness, manifestation arises. -- Ken Wilber
Idealists , workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine , of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity. -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Too often people view idealists as naive. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive. -- John Zorn
Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. -- Lorraine Hansberry
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. -- Hillary Clinton
Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned. -- Susan Wiggs
What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake. -- Henry Williamson
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must. -- Tim Jackson
We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World. -- Ameen Rihani
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. -- Bertrand Russell
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign. -- Michele Bachmann
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher. -- Moses Mendelssohn
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact. -- Oswald Spengler
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on. -- Anna Howard Shaw
Reality is what people who lack vision see. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. -- Jonathan Franzen
Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic... -- Bob Woodward
...I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17... -- John Geddes
Shahid was the free spirit of the Kamal family: a dreamer, an idealist, a wanderer on the face of the earth--or, as Ahmed would put it, a lazy fuckwit. -- John Lanchester
God save me from idealists. -- Jim Butcher
There aren't many idealists in politics. -- Evelyn Anthony
The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists. -- Marty Rubin
We are all born idealists, until life fucks us all. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better. -- Lorraine Hansberry
Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all. -- Sarah Vowell
The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive -- John Zorn
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. -- Alain de Botton
Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression. -- Swami Vivekananda
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. -- Amos Oz
All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall. -- Josh Lanyon
Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires. -- Ludwig Boltzmann
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations. -- Nellie L. McClung
Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline. -- Scott Belsky
Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...' -- Bob Woodward
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions. -- A. J. P. Taylor
It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists. -- Patricia C. Wrede
In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find. -- Sun Yat-sen
What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar. -- Jane Rogers
Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic. -- Seth Godin
War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics. -- Chris Hedges
I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1). -- Shane Claiborne
Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins. -- Mary McCarthy
We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women. -- Jessie Daniel Ames
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
On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people. -- Lawrence Reed
That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway. -- Frank Gehry
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The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well. -- Romeo Dallaire
The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well. -- Romeo Dallaire
God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners. -- Mary Doria Russell
The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it. -- Frederick C. Beiser
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher -- Moses Mendelssohn
Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music. We unlearned the lies with one hand and repeated them with the other. -- Nikolai Grozni
It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people, and the power-oriented people are the ones that cause all the world's trouble. -- Henry A. Kissinger

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