#ideal

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. ↗

#based #castle #foundation #idealism #like

My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie. ↗

— Steve Nash

#family #friends #get #go #good

I'm an idealist without illusions. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#idealist #illusions #without

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#believe #desert #freedom #garden #guts

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be. ↗

— Will Oldham

#case #could #ever #exciting #his

And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat! ↗

— Harry Pollitt

#capitalists #comradeship #country #defeat #effort

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

#american #been #british #driven #economic

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#bad #but not without #hopeless #ideal #look

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#i #ideal #life #memory #my life

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. ↗