Utopian Quotes

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The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm. — Ludwig von Mises
Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural… — Antony Gormley
The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, â€˜Limit yourselfâ€™; it… — Murray Rothbard
All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be… — George Steiner
My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. — Emma Goldman
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. — Charles Caleb Colton
I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or… — Shahrukh Khan
President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But, he doesn't understand… — Bill O'Reilly
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact,… — Dennis Prager
The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national… — George Will
A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new… — Naomi Wolf
When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth… — Martin Filler
Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action… — Evgeny Morozov
I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in… — Douglas Rushkoff
There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of… — Edward Abbey
...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.... — Aldous Huxley
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book… — Kurt Vonnegut
Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your… — Neil Postman
To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott

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