Utopias Quotes

Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state.

— William Golding

Utopias are often just premature truths.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

— Wyndham Lewis

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Utopias of equality are biologically doomed[.]”

— Will Durant

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

— Robert Silverberg

“But utopias don't exist, of course, anywhere in any world. Like alchemy or perpetual motion.”

— Haruki Murakami

Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.”

— Floriano Martins

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

— Toni Morrison

“Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

— Michael Ignatieff

“Is this what happens to utopias from the Freek outopos, no place, why must they all evolve from u- to dys-?”

— Maxine Kumin

“Is this what happens to utopias from the Greek outopos, no place, why must they all evolve from u- to dys-?”

— Maxine Kumin

“Utopias bore me. I'm interested in constructing messy, complicated societies that are full of flaws and then saying, ooh, this is interesting,…

— Marie Brennan

“Sex is often centre stage in utopias and dystopias – who can do what, with which set of genital organs, and with…

— Aldous Huxley

“All paradises, all utopias are defined by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth…

— Toni Morrison

The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make…

— Paulo Coelho

It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality…

— Charles Albert Gobat

Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they…

— Isaiah Berlin

…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

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is…

— Marguerite Young

Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but…

— William Golding

“Utopias são facas de dois gumes: Num dia dão flores, noutro são estrume. Na travessia do deserto as utopias são miragens. Mas…

— Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna

“Utopias seem to be much more attainable than one would have believed in other times. And we currently find ourselves faced with…

— Aldous Huxley

“Out of that dark, unstitched wound, that sink of abominations, that craddle of black-thronged cities where the music of ideas is drowned…

— Henry Miller

The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that…

— Jaron Lanier

“We need a new lodestar, a new map of the world that once again includes a distant, uncharted continent – “Utopia.” By…

— Rutger Bregman

The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new…

— Hannah Arendt

Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia...a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace,…

— Erich Fromm

“Utopias travel about underground, in the pipes. There they branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize there. Jean-Jacques lends…

— Victor Hugo

“The great milestones of civilization always have the whiff of utopia about them at first. According to renowned sociologist Albert Hirschman, utopias…

— Rutger Bregman

“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child.…

— Tom Stoppard

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

— Lewis Mumford

Utopias and dystopias can exist side by side, even in the same moment. Which one you're in depends entirely on your point…

— Naomi Alderman

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their…

— Patricia Hampl

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose…

— Julio Cortazar

All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

— Anonymous