Utopia Quotes

170 quotes by 144 authors

Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought… — David James Duncan
Literature is my Utopia — Helen Keller
Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips… — Eduardo Galeano
Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end.… — Kim Stanley Robinson
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries. — Iain Banks
. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull. — Arthur C. Clarke
Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever tries to imagine… — George Orwell
I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed,… — Kim Stanley Robinson
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which… — Oscar Wilde
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches… — Milan Kundera
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque… — Roland Barthes
Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting. — Robert Silverberg
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. — Frank Herbert
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its… — Theodor Adorno
The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie.… — Aleister Crowley
We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves. — Marge Piercy
In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings… — George Orwell
Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs… — Eduardo Galeano
The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more… — Gene Sharp
In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse… — Helen Keller

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