Idealistic Beliefs Quotes

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.

Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

You'll have pie in the sky when you die.

I am a Utopian. What else would I be? I am living in America.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.