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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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"None could be the most perfect. If indeed any, it is only perfect."
"Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds."
"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."
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
"Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century."
"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."
"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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"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."
"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."
"Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed."
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