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Idealists assume the best in others and see it as possible for countries to run the world together, with open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, free trade, and no militaries.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

Idealists, seeking to lift themselves up from the depths of social obscurity and be fêted as heroes, become, whether as Army Rangers or members of violent militias, willing sacrificial victims.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2020

Idealists generally operate on the economic fringe, well outside the rarified niche of legendary financial success.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2018

Paul Berman, a writer in residence at New York University, is the author of Power and the Idealists Photo by Phil Humnicky/Georgetown University.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2011

The Idealists claim that the One is a something called Mind, and that Matter and Force are but ideas in that One Mind.

From A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga by Atkinson, William Walker