“Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.” — William Irwin Thompson, Evil and World Order
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“Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist.” — Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline
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“The young habitually mistake lust for love, they’re infested with idealism of all kinds.” — Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
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“How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.” — Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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“Mere beating the air, mere visionary adherence to a nebulous and possibly highly undesirable ideal, is utterly worthless.” — Theodore Roosevelt, “Latitude and Longitude among Reformers“, Century, June, 1900
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