303 Quotes About Idealism

I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.

The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.

The devil, cheated of his legitimate portion of human life, avenges itself by taking over all of life.

Idealism is only bad if your ideals are bad – or if your ideals are good but your methods don't reflect them.

Honesty can sometimes be so brutal to take in. It's usual to get so drowned in perceived idealism that you can't seem to separate it from honest reality. If, and when, you can separate the two, the gaiety of fantasy is destroyed

...brug ikke det udenlandske ord: Idealer, vi har jo det gode norske Løgne.

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed – that's where lawyers and reporters come from, you know. They're the cynical corpses of idealistic young people who thought the system could be reformed.