If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
Don't look back, you can never look back
Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
