Quote by Emma Goldman
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They h

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. – Emma Goldman

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Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman

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Morality and its victim, the mother – what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? – Emma Goldman

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The actual well seen is ideal. – Thomas Carlyle

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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. – Calvin Coolidge

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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. – Malcolm De Chazal

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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. – Stanley Baldwin

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