Quotes with idealism

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  • Germaine Greer Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Neil Kinnock The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
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  • George Bernard Shaw To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Camille Paglia Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Camille Paglia We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Beau Willimon When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Bono You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence 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.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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