#idealism

Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children? ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#children #embracing #happened #help #help people

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#calculator #forward #get #going #i

He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse. ↗

— Terence Fisher

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Any idealism is a proper subject for art. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#depravity #idealism #optimism #realism #art

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. ↗

— Susan Neiman

#beauty #idealism #philosophy #art

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

— Claude McKay

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This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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