Utopian Quotes

“Utopia begins with durable goods.”

— Bryant McGill

If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

— Alan Kay

Home is pretty utopian.

— Scott Adams

Utopian movements produce dystopias.

— Dennis Prager

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

— Shane Claiborne

Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.

— Wernher von Braun

“Utopian and dystopian truth is stranger than fiction.”

— Michael Wall

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

— Veronica Roth

The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.

— Thomas Sowell

The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom

— Margaret Thatcher

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

— Raymond Aron

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

— Denise Levertov

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there…

— Henry Flynt

I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of…

— Shahrukh Khan

Now I must leave you as you enter the world that is Fuck. You are fucking lucky to be here. It's almost…

— Anonymous

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

— Margaret Atwood

“common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.”

— Kate Atkinson

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

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays…

— Aldous Huxley

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

To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading…

— Paul Goodman

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to…

— Margaret Atwood

The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich…

— Anonymous

Reading about utopianism, and eventually creating characters with their own utopian ambitions, was the way I learned to live with being a…

— Lauren Groff

In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward…

— Rem Koolhaas

These Utopian idealists like the Clintons who think they really do have the answers. They think they're following the best minds of…

— Michael Savage

I gravitate towards the utopian potentials of digital space (post race, post gender, post human etc.), but understand that people live in…

— Saya Woolfalk

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have…

— William J. Mitchell

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a…

— Brian Aldiss

“Let us admit that we have attended parties where for one brief night a republic of gratified desires was attained. Shall we…

— Hakim Bey

Because the utopian's worldview was framed around moving toward this perfected future, it helped stimulate the private exertions that add up to…

— Christine Jennings

What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely…

— Roy Lichtenstein

“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace…

— Criss Jami

The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for…

— Phyllis McGinley

“They were utopian, which meant they saw imperfection everywhere they looked.”

— Michael Chabon

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.

— Camille Paglia

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

— Gunter Grass