Idealism sayings

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◆ Action trumps depression. Confronted with a situation in which our feelings of powerlessness are more than just feelings, we choose to fight the odds, as an existential statement. We bellow our savage war cry in the face of the Roman Legions. We swim against the tidal wave. We attack Goliath with a slingshot, and throw stones at a Sherman tank, and ravage ICBMs with our ball peen hammer. We actively reject the reality of our helplessness; and as we assert defiance, we fan the embers of humanity wherever they live within ourselves and our brothers and sisters.

- Josh Mitteldorf99

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

- Jonathan Franzen99

◆ Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

- Ayn Rand99

◆ Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist...someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

- Peter Senge99

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

- Charles Dickens99

◆ Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never come to fruition.

- Alisa Steinberg99

◆ You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

- Jon Stewart99

◆ As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

- Susan Neiman99

◆ You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

- DH Lawrence99

◆ World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

- Don Williams Jr99

◆ 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.

- Sydney J Harris99

◆ Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

- Vanna Bonta99

◆ Only the broken-hearted idealist can become a cynic.

- Mark Clifton99

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

- Aldous Huxley99