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The Idealists
«Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
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cynical, disappointed, disappoints, idealist, inside, The Idealists
«I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.»
«There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
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«The most perplexing form of evil, and especially so for all idealists, is that kind of evil which comes out of our efforts to do good. Perhaps when we try to do good without love, we create evil.»
Author: William Irwin Thompson
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«The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world»
Author: Emma Goldman
| About:
Mankind
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«An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Belief,
Idealism,
Realism
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«The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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