Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
We live in a time where it's very much in vogue, constant search for pure utopian equality, and which, on one level,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that… — George E. Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Take cyberspace as an example. We had this wonderful utopian vision of a new home for the mind. What we've reaped isn't… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I'm an anxious person in general, but something about being pregnant and awaiting the release of my first book, The Monsters Of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“The aim of this book is not to make atheism a popular belief or even to overcome its invisibility. My object is… — Michael Martin Copy Share Image
“That we are utopians is well known. So utopian are we that we go the length of believing that the revolution can… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Wherever you go, whether it be a college campus or the New York Times or ABC News or Venezuela or Cuba or… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Design is interesting because it's utopian. Art is often a jaundiced commentary on contemporary life. Design is always about the future; it's… — Momus Copy Share Image
My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
…This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of… — David Platt Copy Share Image
There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S.… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
For example, you now look at pictures from 1968, they are hugely misleading in terms of standing in as an absolute image… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
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