Utopian Quotes

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The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have… — Bhagat Singh
Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two respects: the inventor,… — Thomas Steven Molnar
The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and… — David Ben-Gurion
We are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if… — Dean Koontz
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic,… — Roy Lichtenstein
I know it's way too Utopian to think we will all ever just hugand love each other- but proactively dealing with hate could be as… — Bobby Sager
All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed… — Mary McCarthy
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. — Richard Rorty
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the… — Maurice Saatchi
We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed… — Neil Gaiman
Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian. — Raymond Aron
Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it… — David Graeber
Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian… — Henry Flynt
If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it. — Veronica Roth
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects.… — Leon Krier
What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant… — David Wilcock
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world… — David Graeber
You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have… — Lev Grossman

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