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

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Aldous Huxley

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The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes. ↗

— Bauvard

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ↗

— John Galsworthy

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