Utopias Quotes
27 quotes by 27 authors
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Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the…
— George Orwell
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All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated…
— Peter O'Toole
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
— Toni Morrison
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The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails…
— Will Durant
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We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.
— Julius Nyerere
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In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality…
— Albert Camus
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Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of…
— William Golding
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The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our…
— Paulo Coelho
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Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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....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
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I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for…
— Marguerite Young
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If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no…
— Marilyn French
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Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.
— Lewis Mumford
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an…
— William Ralph Inge
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Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for…
— Julio Cortazar
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Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought…
— David James Duncan
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