Idealism And Realism Quotes

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.

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

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

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

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

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

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Don't look back, you can never look back

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

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.