The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

Oscar Wilde

33 quotes

Mark Twain

29 quotes

Albert Einstein

28 quotes

Marilyn Monroe

22 quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

19 quotes

Maya Angelou

17 quotes

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

16 quotes

Allen Klein

14 quotes

Anaïs Nin

11 quotes

Mahatma Gandhi

11 quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11 quotes

Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

11 quotes

C.S. Lewis

10 quotes

Emily Dickinson

10 quotes

John Lennon

10 quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr.

10 quotes

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

10 quotes

Albert Camus

9 quotes

Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

9 quotes

Charles Bukowski

9 quotes