how tragically idealistic
my aspirations are ridiculous,
"Dickens!... judged by our standards, he overtops all the writers of his age, not because his literary genius was highest, but because his great heart beat for the poor, because he made the cause of the victims of society his own, and devoted his pen to exposing its cruelties and shams. No man of his time did so much as he to turn men's minds to the wrong and wretchedness of the old order of things, and open their eyes to the necessity of the great change that was coming, although he himself did not clearly foresee it."
-Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy
perhaps we already have a few, kristof being one, but we could always use new flavors of this idealism, right?
"Dickens!... judged by our standards, he overtops all the writers of his age, not because his literary genius was highest, but because his great heart beat for the poor, because he made the cause of the victims of society his own, and devoted his pen to exposing its cruelties and shams. No man of his time did so much as he to turn men's minds to the wrong and wretchedness of the old order of things, and open their eyes to the necessity of the great change that was coming, although he himself did not clearly foresee it."
-Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy
perhaps we already have a few, kristof being one, but we could always use new flavors of this idealism, right?