(29 quotes found)
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist”
George Carlin
“I'm an idealist without illusions.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“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 am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.”
Carl Sandburg
“Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.”
“The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.”
Charley Reese
“Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“An idealist is one who helps the other fellow to make a profit”
Henry Ford
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