It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'

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

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

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

One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

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

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

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

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

Idealism doesn't prevent problems.

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.