When my father began to work with President John. F. Kennedy, we moved to Washington, D. C. I was fortunate in my pre-adolescent years, as my social and political consciousness was developing, to live at the epicentre of that dynamic, idealistic, and inspiring moment in U. S. political history, with its ethos of personal and civic responsibility, summed up so succinctly in his exhortation: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country. "
In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.
I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.
You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy
We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.
Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.
Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.
We're all idealistic when young.
Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
This is life. . . Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak--the ones too small or too foolish to fight back--die in agony and blood.
Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.
We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.
I have your word?” “You trust my word?” “You’re an idealistic fool. Of course.
Young people are more likely to be idealistic and think that radical change is both necessary and possible. They may not yet be stuck in the routinized and sterile life that work and age often bring, nor stuck in any kind of rigid way of thinking. They have great energy and can get things done.
It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.
I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic.
