Utopia Quotes

170 quotes by 144 authors

It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in… — Michel Houellebecq
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people… — Sinclair Lewis
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one.… — Christopher Hitchens
No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power… — Arthur C. Clarke
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. — Lois Lowry
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom. — Arthur C. Clarke
I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears. — Shelby Foote
You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect. — Jon Stewart
I play the radio and moon about...and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever. — Zelda Fitzgerald
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the… — Paul Wellstone
Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions… — William James
I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship. — Pedro Almodovar
In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer… — Todd Rundgren
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one… — Michael Ignatieff
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. — Joel Sternfeld
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias… — Charles Albert Gobat
Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where… — Roxane Gay
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic. — Comte de Lautreamont
Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just… — Jack Carroll
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

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