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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

I'm an idealist.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.