Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Idealism

Quotes about: Idealism

• There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Opportunity, Expectations, Generations

  Joyce Carol Oates' address to graduating class at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, May 28, 2006.

• Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Ideas, Perfection, Idealism

  Source: www.achievement.org

• I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin, by a real idealism and an excitement about the possibilities of the intellect and imagination to deal with this somewhat brutal world.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Real, Imagination, World

  Source: www.achievement.org

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