“Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.” — zal Copy Share Image
Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Jihadis want to watch the world burn, to bring everything crashing down, to destroy the establishment and rebuild it after their own… — Deeyah Khan 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
The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“It's the usual utopian vision. This time they were saying it'll reduce waste. If stores know what their customers want, then they… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Another time, when a shareholder questioned how much he was spending on product development, he was even more dismissive: “The bottom line,”… — Christopher Bonanos Copy Share Image
I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is… — Phillip Sandifer Copy Share Image
“He had been very keen on Esperanto, which had seemed an absurd eccentricity at the time but now Ursula thought it might… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Reading about utopianism, and eventually creating characters with their own utopian ambitions, was the way I learned to live with being a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“There were hundreds of worlds like it, most of them littered with the usual Elder Culture ruins, the usual secrets waiting to… — Paul McAuley Copy Share Image
All the utopianism of the early days of the Internet seems to have dissipated. But I don't want us to lose that… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“Still, Tocqueville knew that the governing despotism of which he wrote, and which can accurately and broadly be characterized as utopianism, is,… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“If capitalist realism is so seamless, and if current forms of resistance are so hopeless and impotent, where can an effective challenge… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Utopianism's equality is intolerant of diversity, uniqueness, debate, etc., for utopianism's purpose requires a singular focus. There can be no competing voices… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“And then," said Sarnac, "I remember that I made a prophecy. I made it - when did I make it? Two thousand… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Utopianism also finds a receptive audience among the society's disenchanted, disaffected, dissatisfied, and maladjusted who are unwilling or unable to assume responsibility… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Our dream of heaven cannot be realized on earth. Once we begin to rely upon our reason, and to use our powers… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All political ideals, that of making the people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
