At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.Aldous Huxley
To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.B. R. Ambedkar
Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.Thomas Pynchon
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.Herbert Croly
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.Shirley Chisholm
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.Carl Jung