What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a… — Greg Gutfeld 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
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“We have made some collective mistakes as a species, it’s true – invested too much power in things we can’t see, let… — Alastair Reynolds 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
A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there… — Gillian Tett Copy Share Image
The reason I namecheck restorative justice so much is because that, to me, is the utopia. — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
People want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union. The French have understood that the EU does… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
“If Utopia is not a place, but a people, then we must choose carefully, for the world is about to change, and… — Bioshock Copy Share Image
“I’d likte to welcome you to the land of free, where healthy, wealthy, happy people contribute to the civilization under the protection… — B. Barmanbek 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
“Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I play the radio and moon about...and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you… — Michael Burawoy Copy Share Image
“A slice of bread eaten is a million times more nourishing than a loaf of bread imagined.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn… — Anatole France 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
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
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image