Quotes on Idealist

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

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

Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.