Utopian Quotes

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The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism. — Kate Millett
I have no notions of a perfect society, I donâ€™t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what weâ€™ve got,… — Jacque Fresco
There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. Â It's better than the one that was. Â Systems always undergo change. — Jacque Fresco
The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the… — Jacque Fresco
There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers. — Jacque Fresco
When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon â€“ when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be… — Parker J. Palmer
Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I donâ€™t think the show demonstrates that.… — Nicholas Meyer
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight… — John Desmond Bernal
There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn. — Michael Novak
A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira.… — Christopher Hitchens
On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S. Mill. Like Marxism,… — Michael Lind
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
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
Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have. — Denise Levertov
TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're… — Bill McKibben
....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
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole… — H.G. Wells
Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the… — Norman O. Brown
To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an… — Daniel Guerin

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