Idealism And Realism Quotations

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

Don't look back, you can never look back

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.