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«It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.»
Author: Bob Geldof | About: Idealism | Keywords: activism, doing nothing, idealism
«Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.»
Author: Jacques Barzun (Educator) | About: Idealism | Keywords: formulate, formulated, formulates, formulating, idealism
«Only the broken-hearted idealist can become a cynic.»
Author: Mark Clifton | About: Idealism
«Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.»
Author: William F. Buckley, Jr. (Writer) | About: Idealism | Keywords: approaches, idealism, prohibitive
«Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.»
Author: Emma Goldman | About: Idealism | Keywords: advanced, caution, enriched, Idealists, winds
«An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris (Author, Journalist) | About: Belief, Idealism, Realism | Keywords: believes, count, cynic, determines, idealist, long run, realist, realists, short run, The Idealists, The Long, The Long Run, The Realist, undid, undoes, undone
«Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.»
Author: Vanna Bonta | About: Idealism, Ideals, Optimism, Reality
«Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.»
Author: Aldous Huxley (Critic, Novelist) | About: Idealism | Keywords: drape, draped, drapes, gentlemen, idealism, political power, toga
«I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble»
Author: Helen Keller (Author, Educator) | About: Achievement, Greatness, Idealism | Keywords: chief, humble, Long To, tasks
«Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | About: Idealism | Keywords: cabbage, cabbages, concludes, idealist, noticing, smells, soup, soups
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