Utopia Quotes

170 quotes by 144 authors

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit… — Margaret Atwood
Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not… — Margaret Atwood
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we… — Robert Bork
And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of… — Dinesh D'Souza
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And… — George Herbert
Misery motivates, not utopia. — Karl Marx
Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes"… — Brooks Atkinson
A utopia cannot, by deï¬nition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring. — Lars Svendsen
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the… — George Orwell
The best dress for walking is nakedness. But our sad though fascinating world rarely offers the right and necessary combinations of weather and privacy, and… — Colin Fletcher
Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ,… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the… — Pope John Paul II
All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals… — Nadine Gordimer
I do not choose to be a common manâ€¦it is my right to be uncommonâ€”if I canâ€¦I seek opportunityâ€”not securityâ€¦I want to take the calculated… — Peter O'Toole
I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no… — Jude Law
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. — Toni Morrison
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a… — Norman Mailer

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