Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its… — Godfried Danneels Copy Share Image
I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decidedto set it up here on earth, thatmost terrible of all… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
It's hard for us sophisticates to believe, but the people my parents worked for were good people. They were socialists of the… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“What I criticize under the name Utopian engineering recommends the reconstruction of society as a whole, i.e. very sweeping changes whose practical… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
It must not be true when the left tell us what they really want is to help and assist and elevate the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those… — Juan Gelman Copy Share Image
[The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism…we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
The overall vision for 'Utopia' was somewhat of a mix between fantasy, future, and ancient China. All of it soaked in a… — Kerli Copy Share Image
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
…This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality… — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The idea of life in France is a utopia where the women are beautiful and they eat cheese all day and wear… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“George Orwell was skeptical of this approach: “Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has a toothache and therefore… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I belin to see how a post-money society would work in practice. When we are in paid employment, we are exchanging our… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“They had fought and starved and even died in pursuit of mankind's oldest dream, but they hadn't known that Tear's vision was… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
“The great milestones of civilization always have the whiff of utopia about them at first. According to renowned sociologist Albert Hirschman, utopias… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Precisely when we should be shouldering the historic task of investing this rich, safe, and healthy existence with meaning, we’ve buried utopia… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to.… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
I feel like utopia is neither here nor there. It's in that sort of space where you feel the most present, and… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
There are no utopia jobs on this earth, .. There's nobody out there that can say, 'I've got the ideal job and… — Chan Gailey Copy Share Image
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you… — Michael Burawoy Copy Share Image
A funny thing happened on the way to utopia: We've turned into this surveillance society and become a race of spies, where… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image