Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Don't look back, you can never look back
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
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