Utopian Quotes

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And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen… — Hjalmar Branting
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed. — Marina Abramovic
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be more than enough… — Jonathan Schell
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom — Margaret Thatcher
Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e… — Rem Koolhaas
In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever… — Rem Koolhaas
I have enjoyed the success my work has brought me. Some might say I haven't really struggled to be successful. I think it is my… — Vidya Balan
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work,… — Edward Abbey
The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, Â are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown.… — Samuel Adams
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or… — Brian Aldiss
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be… — John Berger
Militarists say that to gain peace we must prepare for war. I think we get what we prepare for. If we want a world where… — Jody Williams
We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for… — Donna J. Haraway
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage,… — Howard Zinn
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second,… — Margaret Thatcher
Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the… — Ellen Lupton
At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they… — Lester Bangs

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