Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

- Lafcadio Hearn

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

- William F. Buckley, Jr.

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.

- Tom Stoppard

Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.

- Sung Kang

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

- Sidney Hook

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

- Sargent Shriver

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

- Sargent Shriver

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

- Rem Koolhaas

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

- Neil Kinnock

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

- Mikhail Bakunin

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

- Abigail Washburn

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

- John Buchanan Robinson

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

- James Carville

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

- Jacques Barzun

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

- Joe Biden

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

- Herbert Hoover

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

- Danny Strong

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

- David Talbot

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

- Beau Willimon

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

- Billy Corgan