“Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.”
Melvin Maddocks
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist”
George Carlin
“The most perplexing form of evil, and especially so for all idealists, is that kind of evil which comes out of our efforts to do good. Perhaps when we try to do good without love, we create evil.”
William Irwin Thompson
“I'm an idealist without illusions.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.”
Carl Sandburg
“An idealist is one who helps the other fellow to make a profit”
Henry Ford
“Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist”
Henry Louis Mencken
