Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect.” — Ken Poirot Copy Share Image
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing. — David Cooperrider Copy Share Image
There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils. — Emily Haines 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
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture,… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
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
The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But,… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
This oppressor/oppressed cultural Marxist thing is you're an authentic woman and an authentic black even only if you support liberal causes. If… — Andrew Breitbart 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 hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has… — Hans-Georg Gadamer 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
“...new discoveries show that American soldiers used the swastika as their symbol early in World War I, and up to 1941, against… — James B. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
Detroit is a fascinating place, because things are so bad there that the dystopia has almost become utopian. People know they can't… — Sasha Abramsky 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
“Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.” — Arthur C. Clarke 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
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
In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and… — Rollo May 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
“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
It is no longer enough to point out what we don't like, we have to work out 'What sort of society do… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn. — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
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