"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler

"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive." - William F. Buckley

"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong." - G. K. Chesterton, in New York Times

"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power." - Aldous Huxley

"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power." - Bertrand Russell

"No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars." - QUINTUS ENNIUS, Iphigenia, quoted in Cicero's De Divinatione

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism." - CARL JUNG, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

"If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., speech (1963)

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - H.L. MENCKEN, A Mencken Chrestomathy

"People are willing to devise and praise Utopias but not to live in them." - DAVID PRYCE-JONES, in The Times