Utopia Quotes
170 quotes by 144 authors
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Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the…
— Ang Lee
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The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails…
— Will Durant
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Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
— Theodor Adorno
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Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
— Emile M. Cioran
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We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.
— Julius Nyerere
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Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what…
— Beryl Markham
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality…
— Albert Camus
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In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no…
— Thomas More
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I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes…
— Gunter Grass
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Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
— Khalil Gibran
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Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of…
— William Golding
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Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.
— Albert Camus
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To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
— Michael Novak
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A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.
— Max Stirner
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Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its…
— Fredric Jameson
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Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.
— Thomas Steven Molnar
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There can be no peace on earth as long as there is war in love.
— Dieter Duhm
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Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New…
— Godfried Danneels
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