#idealism

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

— William Hague

#i #idealism #realism #tempered #thought

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

#gentlemen #idealism #noble #over #political

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#dealing #direct #every #grave #grave danger

When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good. ↗

— James McGreevey

#better #calling #citizenship #could #demanded

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#procrastination #procrastination

Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed – that's where lawyers and reporters come from, you know. They're the cynical corpses of idealistic young people who thought the system could be reformed. ↗

— CrimethInc.

#journalism #lawyers #reporters #love

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#misanthropy #love

Idealisme adalah kemewahan terakhir yang hanya dimiliki oleh pemuda. ↗

— Tan Malaka

#inspirational #spirit #youth #inspirational

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#co-dependence #divorce #idealism #idealists #marriage