Quotes on Idealism And Realism

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

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.

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.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

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