Utopia Quotes

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Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere. — Alfred Stieglitz
Beyond Bookchinâ€, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; â€œWe are inclined… — Marshall Sahlins
Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey. — Jeremy Rifkin
I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for… — Marguerite Young
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the… — Lionel Trilling
We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are asked to be… — Emily Greene Balch
Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, --… — William Wordsworth
Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The… — Mikhail Gorbachev
If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no… — Marilyn French
The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people… — Sam Lipsyte
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest… — Aldous Huxley
Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. — Lewis Mumford
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men… — Phyllis McGinley
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. — Marguerite Young
I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national… — Vicente del Bosque
Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge… — Alanis Morissette
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there… — Veronica Roth
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't… — Kurt Vonnegut
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward. — David Lilienthal
I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I… — Gael Garcia Bernal

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