Idealist Quotes

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. - Stanley Kubrick

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy. - John Zorn

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent. - Don Williams

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. - Logan P. Smith

When Peter and I formed CAUC, some people said we were too idealistic. Work within the system, they said. They wanted us to temper our drive, our passion for change. - Tim Bodine

When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow. - Anurag Kashyap

When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed. - Dennis Prager

We've got just a variety of cultures during the show. I guess it's sort of an idealistic show. Here we are, all different cultures, and look at us here together. I think people get a sense of that. - Aislinn Ryan