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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
Henry Louis Mencken
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Gustav Jung
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What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in...
Emir Kusturica
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I thought it was a helluva thriller. JFK`s murder marked the end of a dream, the end of a concept of idealism that I associate with my youth. Race war, Vietnam, Watergate. If JFK had lived, the combat situation in Vietnam would never have occurred.
Oliver Stone
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Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?
Andre Cita
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This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.
Allayne Barrilleaux
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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.
Alison Cottrell
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The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.
Alan Justad
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The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.
Allayne Barrilleaux
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The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
Neil Kinnock
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Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people`s highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.
Andre Manning
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck
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Let there be a fresh breeze of new honesty, new idealism, new integrity. You have typewriters, presses and a huge audience. How about raising hell?
Andy McGivern
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Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don`t look back, you can never look back.
Don Henley
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It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.
Bob Geldof
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It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry`s decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
Andre Artero
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If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
Ana Guerriero
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If you didn`t have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
James Carville
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Bill Moyers
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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Andrea Reed
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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
Alfred DeMaria
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Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.
Anthony Tang
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
Andrew Mwenda
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one`s distance from the problem.
John Galsworthy
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For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
Henry Cabot Lodge
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But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.
Henry Cabot Lodge
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As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
Alan Justad
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A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the `60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn`t change anything.
David Talbot
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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
Aldous Huxley
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover
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