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"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
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"None could be the most perfect. If indeed any, it is only perfect."
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"The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."
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"If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase."
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"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
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"Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century."
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"Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair."
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"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."
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"The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest."
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"The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations."
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"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
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"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."
Change
"Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day."
People
"Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be."
Effort
"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian."
Change
"Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there."
Heaven
"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other."
Life
"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."
Business
"The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice."
Sacrifice
"Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love."
Love
"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
Idealism
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