Utopia Quotes

170 quotes by 144 authors

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
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
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
Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture. — Theodor Adorno
Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism. — Emile M. Cioran
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
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
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
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
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
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
Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts. — Khalil Gibran
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
Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality. — Albert Camus
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia. — Michael Novak
A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists. — Max Stirner
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
Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder. — Thomas Steven Molnar
There can be no peace on earth as long as there is war in love. — Dieter Duhm
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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