“And then I realized that my utopia was a terrible place, and no one should ever put me in charge of creating… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“During this period of his life, Burroughs was seeking a physical utopia, a place where he could live and act as he… — Greg A. Mullins Copy Share Image
That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“We’ll never create a utopia, because it’s impossible to define good without having bad to compare it to. There is no pleasure… — Johnny B. Truant Copy Share Image
The fundamental difference is that conservatives think man is created in God's image. Liberals think they [themselves] are gods - they want… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“The mistake of utopia is to assume that all will be perfect. Perfection may be the definition, but we are human, and… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception. But the idea of Europe as an… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“It may be that the best we can hope for when it comes to utopias is that they be held at arm's… — Edward Rothstein Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the First World War because it was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and it was… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Time must not go on if you don't want it to. We have the complete freedom to live the way we wish,… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions -… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are.… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy.… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood 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
From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and… — Laura Chinchilla Copy Share Image
Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec,… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris,… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“...philosophers will forever wrangle about the true nature of science as a prelude to their dream of the final knockdown argument which… — Philip Mirowski Copy Share Image
Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image