Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“You can only rise so far by climbing on others’ shoulders, you know.” — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
“Looking out over the lake, I felt enveloped in the most peaceful, loving utopia.” — Laurie Kahn Copy Share Image
Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“Is this what happens to utopias from the Greek outopos, no place, why must they all evolve from u- to dys-?” — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“You can be with the 'truth' or you can cheat yourself by believing the big lie in front of you is the… — Kandathil Sebastian Copy Share Image
“All paradises, all utopias are defined by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
There is this idea of history as something you make, as a meaningful narrative with a beginning and an end, the end… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Communism is a utopian view of history, because the impossible is necessary for its realization. In essence, this requires a high level… — Elmar Hussein Copy Share Image
That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
You can't believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left. And… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
What is it I see in the future? well I see so many things I see a world of peace where everyone… — Emma Swenson Copy Share Image
“That being said, is there anything to say in support of utopian thinking? Everything, if the meaning of the word is somewhat… — Leszek Kołakowski Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Utopians don't say, 'The world's corrupt, women make less money, people of color are oppressed at every turn.' You don't list the… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image