Idealists are dangerous to themselves and the people around them. If you truly wanted to live a good life, it was a revolutionary act....If you want to be a saint, you have to risk looking like a fool.I was once an idealist. It was dangerous to myself. I want to live a good life, and am struggling to be a revolutionary. Perhaps if I continue to be the fool, I will be a saint.
Mark Lee
February 25, 2007
Fools and Saints
I recently read a book about journalists and photographers traveling the world to cover disasters, genocides and the such. This was the view of one of them:
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So, does the quotation mean that it's good to be an idealist or bad? Is it a good sort of dangerous as in breaking free of the enemy? Or is it the bad sort of dangerous where you are only going to cause pain to yourself and others?
"I was once an idealist" - Do you desire to be one once again or was that a statement of recovery from being one?
for me, being an idealist was bad-dangerous. i got hurt. and i'm sure i hurt others. But, i also think that holding out for hope requires a fair amount of idealism, and this i think is good. maybe.
I don't think I'm an idealist now. sometimes, even, i'm really pesimistic. others would call it being "realistic." i want to live somewhere in the middle of hoping and being realistic.
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