"Activists fall into four distinct categories: 'radicals,' 'opportunitsts,' 'idealists,' and 'realists.' [The 3-step strategy is to] (1) isolate the radicals; (2) 'cultivate' the idealists and 'educate' them into becoming 'realists'; then (3) coopt the 'realists' into agreeing with industry. The 'realists' should always receive the highest priority in any strategy dealing with a public policy issue... If your industry can successfully bring about these relationships, the credibility of the radicals will be lost and opportunists can be couted on to share in the final policy solution."

-Ronald Duchin
Mongoven, Biscoe and Duchin Public Relations
Speaking to the National Cattlemen's Association

"None of us is immune. All find emotional sustenance in war's myth. The myth can take many forms. it can lead people to celebrate power among those who are America's enemies, those who lead 'revolutionary' regimes in Cuba or Vietnam, or i can lead us to celebrate our own power, but the process is the same. It is still a myth. It still blinds those who swallow it."

-Chris Hedges, War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning

I guess I would consider myself an idealist - but far too stubborn to be converted.

I guess I would consider myself an idealist - but far too stubborn to be converted.
I think you may have missed the point.