I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two… — Thomas Steven Molnar Copy Share Image
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we're going to spread… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
To be conservative…is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
The thing that had fueled these utopian communities was a literal belief, and not just a general sense of optimism, that the… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
“What I criticize under the name Utopian engineering recommends the reconstruction of society as a whole, i.e. very sweeping changes whose practical… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
“Weird and fantastic as it seems, the Fourierist idea took some hold, even in that fortress of practicality and common sense, the… — Robert L. Heilbroner Copy Share Image
We cannot create blueprint for future society, but it is good to think about that. It is good to have in mind… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It isn't humanly possible for the things radical leftists want to bring about the desired results that they choose. They claim they… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If some of these answers seem radical or far-fetched today, then I say wait until tomorrow. Soon it will be abundantly clear… — James Gustave Speth 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
I have enjoyed the success my work has brought me. Some might say I haven't really struggled to be successful. I think… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Maybe the realisation of the full human potential is the utopian thing. Maybe that is our collective struggle, is to find a… — Chris Pine 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
I think [John Adams] developed a much deeper suspicion of France and the other European powers than he had earlier. He lost… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
I think attempting to make art is a utopian process in itself, definitely. Nothing I do is ever equal to the ideas… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
We live in a time where it's very much in vogue, constant search for pure utopian equality, and which, on one level,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
You just overwhelm the system with so many dependents and so many middle class benefits having to be paid that the money… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than… — Jacque Fresco 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
Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that… — George E. Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate… — Bhagat Singh 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
Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Design is interesting because it's utopian. Art is often a jaundiced commentary on contemporary life. Design is always about the future; it's… — Momus Copy Share Image
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