303 Quotes About Idealism

The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.

Intellectual and moral progress is not a matter of getting closer to an antecedent goal but of surpassing the past.

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

You're an idealist. The idealists are always the revolutionaries, the cat's paws. Then the realists consolidate, compromise and liquidate the opposition.

Von bösen Menschen geht Böses aus, von Guten Gutes. Ich glaube fest daran, dass wir in der Hand haben, wer wir sein wollen. Lügen, betrügen und nicht fair spielen hätten mein Leben an unzähligen Stellen einfacher gemacht – aber ich habe mich bewusst dagegen entschieden. Das kann echt jeder. Man braucht nur Anstand und Mut.

Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengabdian buta.

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

Bravery usually looked stupid from the outside.