Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing. — David Cooperrider 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
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
“Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect.” — Ken Poirot 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
...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there… — Henry Flynt 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 man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be… — Jonathan Schell 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
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
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
“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
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to… — R. Buckminster Fuller 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
They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking… — Christine Jennings 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
“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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Now I must leave you as you enter the world that is Fuck. You are fucking lucky to be here. It's almost… — Anonymous 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
“common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have. — Denise Levertov 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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 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
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
![“Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be more than enough sins left for everyone to commit after we have taken nuclear bombs away from ourselves.” quote by Jonathan Schell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c2/jonathan-schell-29900_abolition_of-course-some-will-say-the-goal-of-abol_3165936.jpg)
![“I think [John Adams] developed a much deeper suspicion of France and the other European powers than he had earlier. He lost much if not all of the utopian thinking about international politics and diplomacy expressed in his Model Treaty of 1776 and became much more cynical about the world.” quote by Gordon S. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccc/gordon-s-wood-13199_cynical_i-think-john-adams-developed-a-much-deep_372770.jpg)
![“They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking for someone who wanted to buy a pre-built town, which wouldn't have been appropriate for any kind of normal settlement. That's when Robert Owen [Welsh…” quote by Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d50/christine-jennings-20527_appropriate_they-rappites-were-moving-from-southern_2693393.jpg)
