Utopian Quotes · Page 2

In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and…

— Rollo May

“It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.”

— Sverker Sörlin

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

— Paul Di Filippo

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to…

— Michael Pollan

I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on…

— John Lydon

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any…

— Anonymous

“People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.”

— A.E. Samaan

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

— Emily Haines

Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it…

— David Graeber

True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In…

— Maurice Saatchi

You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you…

— Lev Grossman

Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh,…

— Viggo Mortensen

The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring…

— George Will

Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth,…

— Ellen Hopkins

I feel as if dystopian and utopian representations are historically the most effective way of criticizing modern society. You know, because you…

— Owen Pallett

Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult,…

— Evgeny Morozov

“...new discoveries show that American soldiers used the swastika as their symbol early in World War I, and up to 1941, against…

— James B. Lawrence

The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense…

— Dwight Macdonald

The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

There is this fashionable progressive notion that everything is so completely political that the idea we could have some sort of neutral…

— Wendy Kaminer

Detroit is a fascinating place, because things are so bad there that the dystopia has almost become utopian. People know they can't…

— Sasha Abramsky

“If love is under siege, it is because it threatens the very essence of commercial civilization. Everything is designed to make us…

— Raoul Vaneigem

But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind-…

— Tim Dorsey

This oppressor/oppressed cultural Marxist thing is you're an authentic woman and an authentic black even only if you support liberal causes. If…

— Andrew Breitbart

Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

— David Cooperrider

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

— Jacque Fresco

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A.…

— Henry Rollins

“It was all very utopian, but it gave one nothing to get, to win, to hold onto. There were no distances, so…

— David Pratt

I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' comic books, graphic novels.

— Andy Biersack

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

— Denise Levertov

“common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.”

— Kate Atkinson

I know it's way too Utopian to think we will all ever just hugand love each other- but proactively dealing with hate…

— Bobby Sager

I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of…

— Shahrukh Khan

Now I must leave you as you enter the world that is Fuck. You are fucking lucky to be here. It's almost…

— Anonymous

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there…

— Henry Flynt

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

— Margaret Atwood

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays…

— Aldous Huxley

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

— Aldous Huxley

“Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect.”

— Ken Poirot

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has…

— Emma Goldman