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Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled…

— Emma Goldman

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

— Albert Camus

Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at…

— Norman O. Brown

“That being said, is there anything to say in support of utopian thinking? Everything, if the meaning of the word is somewhat restricted. If…

— Leszek Kołakowski

The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.

— Thomas Sowell

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Utopia means elsewhere.

— John Malkovich

Utopias are often just premature truths.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“If utopia was illusion hypostasized, communism, going still further, will be illusion decreed, imposed: a challenge to the omnipresence of evil, an obligatory optimism.…

— Emil Cioran

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

— Isaiah Berlin

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with…

— Fredric Jameson

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

— Aldous Huxley