Utopia Quotes

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.

The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involved.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.

To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it.

Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.

To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia.

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and the least religious people of their time all drawn to very similar visions of utopia?

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.

Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.

Utopia means elsewhere.

The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?

There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'?

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.

The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.

I hold to nothing but envisioning international peace and utopia. We all have many more things in common than not.

The really damaging thing is that the objectives, the goals of the people on the left are not possible. There is no utopia.

There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.

Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements

She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.

Most people know nothing about learning

I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.

Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.

Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace.

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.