(30 quotes found)
“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
“When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“Yes, you are right - I am a moralist in disguise; it gets me into heaps of trouble when I go thrashing around in political questions”
Mark Twain
“It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.”
Jennifer Frederick
“Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.”
Melvin Maddocks
“If you can invent a technology which can provide free energy to the whole world, then better use it yourself quietly without telling it to anyone. Do not try to be idealistic nor altruistic, unless you are really prepared to deal with the ruler of this world.”
Toba Beta
“The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewhat foolish guy . . . So I tell them to try to hold on to the way they feel right now. Because that's going to effect them for the rest of their lives.”
Billy Joel
“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. Harris
“It may be idealistic, ... but that's our plan.”
Ron Holt
