“It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Maybe we aren't capable of being satisfied, Kelsea thought, and the idea seemed to open a chasm inside her. Maybe utopia is… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The most intrinsic value a society may posses is being comfortable with being uncomfortable. — Westley Aden Copy Share Image
As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“There is utopia and utopia. The kind imposed by an elite in the name of a historical imperative—that utopia is hell. It… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“Is it to be supposed that Nature has not bestowed upon me sufficient imagination to invent a Utopia too? Is it for… — Frédéric Bastiat 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
“She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really… — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
“I’m just an apprentice, stuck between these borrowed first and last breaths that I was given, drinking water of life, and chasing… — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
“A utopia I would join in a minute is a society which could be communist or capitalist, anything, except that no woman… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
I have been swamped all my life with the idea of the unlimited potential and resources of the American Dream. Not only… — Rick Alverson 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
Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways… — Malcolm Wells 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
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Despite the miracles of capitalism, it doesn't do well in popularity polls. One of the reasons is that capitalism is always evaluated… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
The really damaging thing is that the objectives, the goals of the people on the left are not possible. There is no… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory… you have a dream.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Literature is my Utopia...No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.” — John Gray Copy Share Image
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I play the radio and moon about...and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
