Quotes about Idealism

That was what had changed, he thought. To love posterity and the great institutions you had to believe in the wisdom of men. You had to love them as a child might, gazing upward.

Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.

Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

But the idealist subdued to vulgar necessities must employ vulgar minds to draw the inferences to which he cannot stoop

All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.

Step 8 is a marvelous tool and technology for very practical incarnation, which keeps Christianity grounded, honest, and focused on saving others instead of just ourselves. "Anyone who claims to be in the light, but hates his brother or sister, is still in the dark" (1 John 2:9). Until religion becomes flesh, it is merely Platonic idealism instead of Jesus radicalism.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.