top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Idealism quotes
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
"Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
"If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?"
"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."
"There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it-love-nobility-big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . ."
"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."
"That's the thing you girls never get. It doesn't matter if you just woke up, or just got done bawling, or just finished your make-up. When a guy's all love-sick over a chick, she looks exactly the same to him all the time: perfect."
"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."
Explore more quotes by Emma Goldman
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves."
"No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time."
"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul."
"Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free."
"The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human 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."
bottom of page