“And above all, I will argue the necessity for preserving, against all shame, a demanding question of revolution itself, a question about… — Lauren Berlant Copy Share Image
We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics… — Russell Kirk 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
I'm stopped more regularly about 'Utopia' than almost anything I've ever done. People will come up and say 'you were in 'Utopia,'… — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
'Neon Future' is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It's embracing… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
I feel like utopia is neither here nor there. It's in that sort of space where you feel the most present, and… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
There are no utopia jobs on this earth, .. There's nobody out there that can say, 'I've got the ideal job and… — Chan Gailey Copy Share Image
The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The great milestones of civilization always have the whiff of utopia about them at first. According to renowned sociologist Albert Hirschman, utopias… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“According to the normal view, happiness is the summum bonum towards which we're naturally impelled by virtue - which in their definition… — Thomas Moore 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
“This was London, in all its filth and glory. Nostalgic for the past, while yearning to cast off the chains of bygone… — Marie Brennan Copy Share Image
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Parenthood means becoming comfortable with the fact that there are things outside your control, things that end and fail, just as most… — Lauren Groff 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
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
The overall vision for 'Utopia' was somewhat of a mix between fantasy, future, and ancient China. All of it soaked in a… — Kerli 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
“Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal,… — Carne Ross Copy Share Image
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decidedto set it up here on earth, thatmost terrible of all… — Nadine Gordimer 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
The idea of life in France is a utopia where the women are beautiful and they eat cheese all day and wear… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“George Orwell was skeptical of this approach: “Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has a toothache and therefore… — Eric Weiner 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
“Cut! Go again." And again, and again, and again. Finally, after the fourth of fifth take I yelled down the hill to… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used.… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But the question is, historically, part of the group that you're a part of - whether it's racial, gender, religious, whatever -… — Jacob Applebaum Copy Share Image
The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that… — Jaron Lanier 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
“Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
While the fictional realm as such allows for the obstacles of present-day politics to be altered, neglected, and negotiated at will, sci-fi… — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“We need a new lodestar, a new map of the world that once again includes a distant, uncharted continent – “Utopia.” By… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise-- the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image