“They were utopian, which meant they saw imperfection everywhere they looked.” — Michael Chabon 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
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from. — Aldous Huxley 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 vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure.… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't… — Antony Gormley 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
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism. — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Militarists say that to gain peace we must prepare for war. I think we get what we prepare for. If we want… — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not… — Salvador Allende Copy Share Image
Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of… — John Ralston Saul 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
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
When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The idea that Bentham and Mill were maximizers is the greatest stretch of all. They were progressivists, committed to improving the societies… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image