True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you… — Lev Grossman 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
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
Design is interesting because it's utopian. Art is often a jaundiced commentary on contemporary life. Design is always about the future; it's… — Momus Copy Share Image
My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Wherever you go, whether it be a college campus or the New York Times or ABC News or Venezuela or Cuba or… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The aim of this book is not to make atheism a popular belief or even to overcome its invisibility. My object is… — Michael Martin Copy Share Image
“That we are utopians is well known. So utopian are we that we go the length of believing that the revolution can… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular… — Henry Giroux 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 shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one… — 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
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
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
…This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of… — David Platt Copy Share Image
'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that… — George E. Brown, Jr 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
Take cyberspace as an example. We had this wonderful utopian vision of a new home for the mind. What we've reaped isn't… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white… — Anais Nin 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 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
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
I think attempting to make art is a utopian process in itself, definitely. Nothing I do is ever equal to the ideas… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
You just overwhelm the system with so many dependents and so many middle class benefits having to be paid that the money… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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