Utopia Quotes · Page 8

As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on…

— Penn Jillette

The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their…

— Patricia Hampl

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.”

— Victor Hugo

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

— Marguerite Young

“In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked…

— B. Barmanbek

All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and…

— Will Durant

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

— Lois Lowry

That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and…

— Christine Jennings

What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a…

— Greg Gutfeld

“All paradises, all utopias are defined by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth…

— Toni Morrison

“You can be with the 'truth' or you can cheat yourself by believing the big lie in front of you is the…

— Kandathil Sebastian

Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any…

— Karl Polanyi

Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia . Utopia…

— Brad Warner

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

“But when Aragorn arose all that beheld him gazed in silence, for it seemed to them that he was revealed to them…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm…

— Anonymous

“The internet we know is full of places, languages, territories, and it’s an alternate world in itself. The strange thing is that,…

— Anonymous

“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects…

— Thomas More

Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a…

— David James Duncan

“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

Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I love to be in New York. And I think anybody who's a designer, who says they're doing an urban collection, thinks…

— Olivier Theyskens

“Nowhere is it written that you have the right to make everyone else bend to your particular vision of utopia.”

— Joseph Befumo

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

— Paul Wellstone

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

— Anonymous

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia -…

— Roxane Gay

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

— Frank Herbert

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

— Julius Nyerere

“Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.”

— zal

There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not…

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

— Bertrand Russell

“Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless…

— Grant Morrison

Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.

— Peter Bergen

“Ideology is the enemy of joyful community life, and the most destructive ideology is the belief that creating utopia is possible.”

— Rod Dreher

“It’s more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise…

— B. Barmanbek

When all the hatred we bear toward each other ceases, will eternal worldwide peace ensue.

— Isaiah Harden

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.

— Stuart Pearce