There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand Copy Share Image
Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune. — Christopher Hitchens 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
Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The Oneida Perfectionists, along with some of the others, believed that feminism, and abolitionism, and other causes that they pursued in their… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
There's a book of interviews with John Cage by Joan Retallack called Musicage that was finished the summer that he died, in… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I feel as if dystopian and utopian representations are historically the most effective way of criticizing modern society. You know, because you… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh,… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring… — George Will Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian… — Lois Lowry 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
When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live.… — Christine Jennings 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
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
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
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
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
Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
There was a period when the utopian scenario was almost true - when we felt that you could do almost anything in… — Thomas Koner 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
The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
So there's that change of general consciousness, and then there's this boom after the war, this expansion into the West. It was… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his cinema,… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
How do we get utopian thinking in a dystopian world? These days we aren't talking to each other - we're screaming and… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
“Communism is a utopian view of history, because the impossible is necessary for its realization. In essence, this requires a high level… — Elmar Hussein Copy Share Image
The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously,… — Mark Riebling Copy Share Image
It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“If I could, I'd take the food and art of Italy, for example, couple it with the quiet, understated personality of France… — Tsh Oxenreider Copy Share Image
Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image