Utopia Quotes
170 quotes by 144 authors
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That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces something so utterly…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.
— Michael Novak
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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And…
— H.G. Wells
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The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the…
— Karl Popper
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Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will…
— Nathan S. Kline
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Your mouth on mine our bridge to cross and serve where we would go. Utopia of sensations the flesh could never know.
— Vanna Bonta
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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to…
— Gunter Grass
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If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today.
— Thomas Reed
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I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature…
— Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making…
— Hendrik Willem van Loon
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The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is…
— Laura Chinchilla
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I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.
— Carlo Petrini
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The fundamental difference is that conservatives think man is created in God's image. Liberals think they [themselves] are gods - they want to create utopia…
— Ann Coulter
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Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.
— Oscar Wilde
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The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary…
— Russell Kirk
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When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which…
— Steve Erickson
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The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no…
— Thomas Merton
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The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today,…
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.
— Dan Simmons
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