Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
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I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.
We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
Ideals are the world's masters.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.