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idealism
«Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
Action,
Words
| Keywords:
assassins, idealism, The Assassin, The Assassins
«The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.»
Author: John Foster Dulles
(Secretary)
| About:
Humanity,
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
Human sacrifice, idealism, reserve, self-sacrifice, The Finest
«The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| Keywords:
competing, demonstrably, desirable, Economic reform, effectual, idealism, idealist, impracticable, objectionable, offered, pointing, pointing out, political program, program, successfully
«The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
agent, Big Boys, Big Picture, bogus, ceased, degraded, fake, idealism, incessant, incompetence, Out of This World, overall, overalls, pervasive, pretentiousness, shots, snide, squabble, squabbling, start out, strut, struts, strutting, The Big Picture, The Boys, tricks
«We need you, we need your youth, your strength, and your idealism, to help us make right what is wrong.»