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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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"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."
"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."
"What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative."
"It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
"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."
"I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism."
"Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century."
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"Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed."
"Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines."
"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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