Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“Only those capable of envisaging utopia will be fit for the decisive battle, that of recovering all the humanity we have lost. ” — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.” — A.E. Samaan 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
Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Is this what happens to utopias from the Greek outopos, no place, why must they all evolve from u- to dys-?” — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment… Humanity is… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“God could wave a magic wand and change the whole world into a perfect utopia, sure. Who does that help, though? He… — Kimberly Rae Jordan Copy Share Image
Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia?… I think that by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Franz Kafka once said that happiness consists in having an ideal and not progressing towards it. If you did progress towards it,… — Momus Copy Share Image
The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“There is, however, another avenue of utopian thought, one that is all but forgotten. If the blueprint is a high-resolution photo, then… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“And then all that has divided us will merge And then compassion will be wedded to power And then softness will come… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
“In his time the City was made more fair than it had ever been, even in the days of its first glory;… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called,… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?” — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Your mouth on mine our bridge to cross and serve where we would go. Utopia of sensations the flesh could never know. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
The fact there is no route-map to utopia does not mean that there are no routes to more accessible destinations. — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery. — Dan Simmons 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
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong. — Carolyn Heilbrun 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
The really damaging thing is that the objectives, the goals of the people on the left are not possible. There is no… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory… you have a dream.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“Literature is my Utopia...No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
