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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
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In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word ''experience'' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.
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It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing.... We made giving exciting.
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Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Human Society in Ethics and Politics -
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!
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Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
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