Youth Idealism Quotes

We're all idealistic when young.

Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

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.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

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

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

I think what you are supposed to be when you are young is idealistic and passionate.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

I admired the earnestness of these people, many of whom had joined Greenpeace and marched for noble things in their youth. But I didn’t share their hatred of the establishment. After all, the establishment had given me so many of my favorite things: Nick at Nite, the New York Knicks, Stephen King, Taco Bell, Green Day. The list went on and on.