So there's that change of general consciousness, and then there's this boom after the war, this expansion into the West. It was… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live.… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Because the utopian's worldview was framed around moving toward this perfected future, it helped stimulate the private exertions that add up to… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
The Oneida Perfectionists, along with some of the others, believed that feminism, and abolitionism, and other causes that they pursued in their… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
The thing that had fueled these utopian communities was a literal belief, and not just a general sense of optimism, that the… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure.… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
There are two instances I studied in which a community moved, amazingly, into an preexisting village built by other, earlier communalists. The Rappites were… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
The religious and irreligious are agreeing with each other almost all the time. Their rhetoric is the same, and their plans are the same.… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas that now… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no rocks, and… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
But if you'd only ever lived in small wooden house in the middle of wilderness, it sounded much better. Especially because it provided intense… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
Atheist isn't really the right word because they tended to believe in some sort of Enlightenment, capital 'N' Nature kind of god. But these… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led me back… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
Because the utopian's worldview was framed around moving toward this perfected future, it helped stimulate the private exertions that add up to social progress.… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
The thing that had fueled these utopian communities was a literal belief, and not just a general sense of optimism, that the earth was… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
They [Oneida people] didn't want to fix problems one at a time. If someone invited them to a feminist convention, their answer would have… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
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 problems of… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
don't think I should be in the business of making big pronouncements about where we are now, but I would say that dissatisfaction is… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
The secular utopians basically said the exact same thing, they just took the Bible out of the equation. The religious and the secular groups… — Christine Jennings Copy Share
![“Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me as historical documents. Cabet [Icaria's founder and author of the utopian novel, Travels in Icaria], is writing in the 1830s, and his idea of the perfect society reveals a lot…” quote by Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ac0/christine-jennings-20527_book_utopian-fiction-is-really-boring-i-had-t_68118.jpg)
![“They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking for someone who wanted to buy a pre-built town, which wouldn't have been appropriate for any kind of normal settlement. That's when Robert Owen [Welsh…” quote by Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d50/christine-jennings-20527_appropriate_they-rappites-were-moving-from-southern_2693393.jpg)
![“The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure. Owen's design for what he called a "parallelogram" was essentially to have a whole city in one building, laid out around a huge quadrangle. Fourier's scheme was to build a…” quote by Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/474/christine-jennings-20527_architecture_the-vision-shared-by-both-french-utopian_2339372.jpg)
