Idealist Mugs

'Look - decide. Are you going to launch an attack on tradition, or make a few bob?'

'Actually, with bachelor's degrees in philosophy, we were lucky to get even THIS job.'

'Bob, give it up. It's just crazy pipe dreams.'

Recycling: Hopes and Dreams

Child protects planet with umbrella.

Paul Ree

'Half an optimist is an odd bird, Sarah.'

USA Hangs the Dove of Peace

Public footpath on a desert island.

Citizen of the world.

'Idealist'

"I dreamed last night that I had a job within walking distance."

"We're still trying to sort out the details."

'No, please, go on. It's so refreshing to talk to someone with an entirely different point of view.'

"...I thought I was too smart, too idealistic to end up this way, but LOOK at me! I've become an entrenched bureaucrat!"

"When I grow up I'm going to become president and I'm going to abolish homework!"

"Students always think that they're going to change the world..."

"But dear, after discussing the company's lofty ideals and goals, it seemed petty to discuss my salary."

"My primary challenge is to strip away the hardened carapace of societal expectations..."

"Let's run away and make a new life for ourselves filled with completely different problems."

A hippie saying "Peace"

'Cute girl from philosophy. . . BBQ at Dave's. I wonder if she's going?. . . Flat meeting to talk about me not doing my share.'

'Cool, but who you gonna get to throw it?'

Non-profit organization chart

Sad Statue of Liberty

'Have ideals, fine - bit never let them cloud your business judgement.'

"You know what I think, folks? Improving technology isn't important. Increased profits aren't important. What's important is to be warm, decent human beings."

"I deal. Therefore I am an idealist."

'Well, he always said he wanted the biggest damn desk in the city.'

Democrats: Dreaming of doing good works.

Clancy: Exception to the rule

Human right/left.

'I begged, I pleased with him. I told him he'd be wasting his life. Why would he want to open himself up to public vilification? A life of virtual poverty, of shattered dreams!'

Freedom, equality, brotherhood