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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
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In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
John Buchanan Robinson
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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Mikhail Bakunin
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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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Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.
Danny Strong
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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
William Hague
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck
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We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
Joe Biden
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Don't look back, you can never look back
Don Henley