ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.
The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding what really works.
There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism. (Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary.
I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.
Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.
Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.
Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.
. . . never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.
Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.
It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.
