Or is it driven by ideology and wishful thinking?

Wishful thinking could never produce working iPhones, photographs of Pluto, or atomic bombs.

It is time for Europeans to end their wishful thinking of a continental order determined by the rule of law.

To a large extent, the US crisis was actually made by the Fed, helped by the wishful thinking of the Bush administration. One main culprit was none other than Alan Greenspan, who left the current Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke, with a terrible situation.

To a large extent, the US crisis was actually made by the Fed, helped by the wishful thinking of the Bush administration.

This approach presupposes that bank assets and exposures can be accurately measured. In fact, the financial statements of mega banks are impenetrable works of fiction or wishful thinking.

In fact, the financial statements of mega banks are impenetrable works of fiction or wishful thinking.

Romney had no miracle cure, either, but he attempted to tap into voters wishful thinking bias, by promising to reduce the size of the government and cut marginal tax rates.

In such circumstances, more than wishful thinking can come into play we might have few incentives to think hard at all.

When Kellenberger cheers on the rise of a civil society supposedly determined to bring about greater respect for human rights and humanitarian law, he is mistaking his dreams for reality.

As psychologists have shown, people are susceptible to wishful thinking bias, wishing away possible future problems that they would rather not think about.

Most of the popular attention that the superstar cities theory has received merely reflects the psychology of the housing boom that we have been seeing, as well as a wishful thinking bias.

That may be wishful thinking.

My friend, the intellectual Kian Tajbakhsh, is in jail in Iran for, well, being an intellectual.

That may still prove to be wishful thinking.

What's desirable isn't always doable.

But even that may be wishful thinking.

Was this wishful thinking or self fulfilling prophecy?

Tom always managed to get what he wanted.

Wishful thinking transformed economic gains into visions of easy wealth.

In the United States, those who argue for another stimulus package observe that it was always wishful thinking to believe that a 787 billion package could offset a 3 trillion fall in private spending.

He is a great thinker, whose advice is always disastrous to follow.

But all the talk of wondrous returns could spur what psychologists call wishful thinking bias, leading people to believe that their personal accounts will be so valuable in the future that outside saving is unnecessary.

Some of this, no doubt, is wishful thinking on the part of economically unsophisticated people.

Even Marx knew that the iron laws of economics could not be overcome by wishful thinking.

But Europe indeed, civilization won t be kept safe by wishful thinking.

1769) 1862 Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b.

All those involved know that, in the end, only the borders of June 1967 including Jerusalem and a negotiated, smaller territorial exchange can be acceptable to both sides, however painful. Everything else is evil wishful thinking for which more innocents will continue losing their lives.

Everything else is evil wishful thinking for which more innocents will continue losing their lives.

This business plan of yours seems almost too optimistic. All I can say is I hope it's more than just wishful thinking.

In fact, the great nineteenth century British political thinker John Stuart Mill advocated liberal government without multi party rule.

This opinion was expressed most clearly in a recent article by the conservative foreign policy thinker Robert Kagan.

Soft power is the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion or payment.

It is this rare combination of morality and perseverance that is his legacy as a foreign policy thinker and practitioner.

On the contrary, wishful thinking led experts to adduce discontinuation symptoms as evidence of the effectiveness of vital remedies. Later, suicides became routinely described as non accidental overdoses, and the broad spectrum term emotional lability came into vogue, despite its inability to distinguish between a drug induced suicide attempt and an outburst of tears.

Association Agreements, although desirable, may not be adequate, as the EU's Balkan experiences indicate.

Thats it.

When Kellenberger cheers on the rise of a civil society supposedly determined to bring about greater respect for human rights and humanitarian law, he is mistaking his dreams for reality.

In 1863, the Russian democratic émigré thinker Alexander Herzen, commenting on the brutal crushing of the Polish uprising by the Tsarist army, wrote in his publication

The official results do not reflect the true will of the people of Zimbabwe and are illegitimate in the eyes of the people.

The real burden will have to be borne, as now, by effective international cooperation in intelligence and policing.

A vibrant Ukrainian democracy will need the comradeship of Russia and of Europe to build the kind of society that our people desire.

The US neocons, with their wishful thinking, grossly underestimated the scale of the task at hand unlike the revolutionaries in Iran, who quickly moved in to reap what the US had sowed.

The often invoked investment gap is mostly a result of wishful thinking, and the remaining barriers to investment have little to do with a lack of financing.

In particular, the French Catholic thinker Jacques Maritain developed arguments as to why Christians should embrace democracy and human rights.