Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“But utopias don't exist, of course, anywhere in any world. Like alchemy or perpetual motion.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.” — Floriano Martins Copy Share Image
“Is this what happens to utopias from the Greek outopos, no place, why must they all evolve from u- to dys-?” — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
“Is this what happens to utopias from the Freek outopos, no place, why must they all evolve from u- to dys-?” — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“All paradises, all utopias are defined by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Sex is often centre stage in utopias and dystopias – who can do what, with which set of genital organs, and with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they… — Isaiah Berlin 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
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Utopias seem to be much more attainable than one would have believed in other times. And we currently find ourselves faced with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“We need a new lodestar, a new map of the world that once again includes a distant, uncharted continent – “Utopia.” By… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The modern creed – or worse, the belief that there’s nothing left to believe in – makes us blind to the shortsightedness… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The great milestones of civilization always have the whiff of utopia about them at first. According to renowned sociologist Albert Hirschman, utopias… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image