Idealistic Youth Quotes

We're all idealistic when young.

I had a very messianic childhood.

The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

Youth is a period of idealism. The Communists attract young people by appealing directly to that idealism. Too often, others have failed either to appeal to it or to use it and they are the losers as a consequence. We have no cause to complain if, having neglected the idealism of youth, we see others come along, take it, and harness it to their cause - and against our own.

I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

I understand that many young men and women are coming forward to join Youth Congress. I am not surprised. It is only natural. The vast majority of our youth is sober and idealistic. It looks forward to an era of disciplined, planned, constructive activity.

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

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

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.

He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?