#idealism

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

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Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. ↗

— Danny Strong

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Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. ↗

— Germaine Greer

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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. ↗

— William Hague

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My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. ↗

— Sidney Hook

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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

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I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#feelings #formulated #idea #idealism #keeps

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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