Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.” — John Gray Copy Share Image
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And then I realized that my utopia was a terrible place, and no one should ever put me in charge of creating… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with… — Martin Amis 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
Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all… — William Wordsworth 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
In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There is this idea of history as something you make, as a meaningful narrative with a beginning and an end, the end… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Communism is a utopian view of history, because the impossible is necessary for its realization. In essence, this requires a high level… — Elmar Hussein Copy Share Image
Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer, but we can feel it… — José Esteban Muñoz Copy Share Image
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Utopias seem to be much more attainable than one would have believed in other times. And we currently find ourselves faced with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
You can't believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left. And… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it… — Alfred Stieglitz 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
In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what… — Martin Amis 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
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The reason I namecheck restorative justice so much is because that, to me, is the utopia. — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
“It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Maybe we aren't capable of being satisfied, Kelsea thought, and the idea seemed to open a chasm inside her. Maybe utopia is… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia. — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
The most intrinsic value a society may posses is being comfortable with being uncomfortable. — Westley Aden Copy Share Image
