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
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
'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
We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of… — David Platt 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
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
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
“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
For example, you now look at pictures from 1968, they are hugely misleading in terms of standing in as an absolute image… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S.… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“That we are utopians is well known. So utopian are we that we go the length of believing that the revolution can… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“The aim of this book is not to make atheism a popular belief or even to overcome its invisibility. My object is… — Michael Martin Copy Share Image
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one… — Gunter Grass 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
When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white… — Anais Nin 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
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
Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful,… — Rem Koolhaas 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
There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other… — Edward Abbey 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
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I'm an anxious person in general, but something about being pregnant and awaiting the release of my first book, The Monsters Of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.” — Sverker Sörlin Copy Share Image
Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
I know it's way too Utopian to think we will all ever just hugand love each other- but proactively dealing with hate… — Bobby Sager Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' comic books, graphic novels. — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
“It was all very utopian, but it gave one nothing to get, to win, to hold onto. There were no distances, so… — David Pratt Copy Share Image
