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The idealist's programme of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.

Charles Horton Cooley

Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929), U.S. sociologist. Human Nature and the Social Order, ch. 9 (1902).

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