“Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.” — zal Copy Share Image
Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand Copy Share Image
Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not… — Salvador Allende Copy Share Image
“Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
There was a period when the utopian scenario was almost true - when we felt that you could do almost anything in… — Thomas Koner Copy Share Image
Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a… — Brian Aldiss 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
“Let us admit that we have attended parties where for one brief night a republic of gratified desires was attained. Shall we… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers'… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I am a bit of a 'dreamer,' so I love fantasizing about utopian futures, and I also love the way you can… — Rekha Sharma Copy Share Image
“The idea of a utopian state on earth, perhaps modeled on some heavenly ideal, is very hard to efface and has led… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Michel Aflaq - is bad poetry wrapped in the guise of utopian politics, or great poetry wrapped in the guise of horrible… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Either we abandon the utopian globalism of open borders and 'ally-ally-in-free' immigration or we lose the war on terrorism and our freedoms… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I imagined it would as… — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though. — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
When you have a vision of where you need to go, it sounds utopian. But when you get to the tipping point,… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism. — Kate Millett Copy Share Image