To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being… — Jason Silva 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
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose… — Albert Camus 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 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
Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia.… — Beryl Markham 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
'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
“They had fought and starved and even died in pursuit of mankind's oldest dream, but they hadn't known that Tear's vision was… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are.… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions -… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy.… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec,… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris,… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and… — Laura Chinchilla 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
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
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
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
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
“Precisely when we should be shouldering the historic task of investing this rich, safe, and healthy existence with meaning, we’ve buried utopia… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to.… — Sheri S. Tepper 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
“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
“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
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
“To-day well, my Utopia, if ever I framed one, would be a land where the laws demanded that people should be vicious.… — Edward Verrall Lucas 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
A funny thing happened on the way to utopia: We've turned into this surveillance society and become a race of spies, where… — Dave Eggers 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