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
“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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure.… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like,… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
What does interest me is how difficult my culture seems to find it to look the dark side of life directly in… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind-… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
“If love is under siege, it is because it threatens the very essence of commercial civilization. Everything is designed to make us… — Raoul Vaneigem 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
There is this fashionable progressive notion that everything is so completely political that the idea we could have some sort of neutral… — Wendy Kaminer 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
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
“...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
[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
![“The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure. Owen's design for what he called a "parallelogram" was essentially to have a whole city in one building, laid out around a huge quadrangle. Fourier's scheme was to build a…” quote by Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/474/christine-jennings-20527_architecture_the-vision-shared-by-both-french-utopian_2339372.jpg)
![“Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh, it's some kind of liberal utopian fantasy. The enemy is gonna be all these conservative types that they'll probably run into, and that's going to be the story."” quote by Viggo Mortensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce1/viggo-mortensen-1554_captains_captain-fantastic-touches-on-that-divisi_515618.jpg)
![“[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams of an ideally decent and civilized society - in the place of knowledge of God's Will, Moral Law, the Laws of History, or the Facts of Science… As long as we…” quote by Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/050/richard-rorty-13909_achieve_walt-whitman-and-humanist-educator-john_2355050.jpg)