“ My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law. Richard M. Rorty
“ The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life. Timothy J. Keller
“ Few things are more dangerous to an egalitarian ideal than the concept of a chosen people, and the divide drawn by the early iteration of God's Church helped to exacerbate the many ideological faults… Erika Johansen
“ Honesty can sometimes be so brutal to take in. It's usual to get so drowned in perceived idealism that you can't seem to separate it from honest reality. If, and when, you can separate the two, the ga… Ufuoma Apoki
“ In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fir… Theodore Roosevelt
“ Self-respect is the very cement of character, without which character will not form nor stand; a personal ideal is the only possible foundation for self-respect, without which self-respect degenerates… Edward O. Sisson
“ The spectre of an absolute menace that requires absolute eradication binds leader and people in a hermetic utopian embrace, and the individual - always an annoyance to totality - ceases to exist. Philip Gourevitch
“ The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm… Bono
“ What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday. John Mark Reynolds
“ You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that had a price, just underneath was the pure terror. Midnight forever. If you stoppe… Thomas Pynchon
“ Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. Bill Moyers
“ No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it… Alfred North Whitehead
“ There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being. Radclyffe Hall
