Belief Quote by Christine Jennings

Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me…

— Christine Jennings

The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was…

— Christine Jennings

There are two instances I studied in which a community moved, amazingly, into an preexisting village built by other, earlier communalists. The Rappites were…

— Christine Jennings

The religious and irreligious are agreeing with each other almost all the time. Their rhetoric is the same, and their plans are the same.…

— Christine Jennings

These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas that now…

— Christine Jennings

The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no rocks, and…

— Christine Jennings

But if you'd only ever lived in small wooden house in the middle of wilderness, it sounded much better. Especially because it provided intense…

— Christine Jennings

Atheist isn't really the right word because they tended to believe in some sort of Enlightenment, capital 'N' Nature kind of god. But these…

— Christine Jennings

I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led me back…

— Christine Jennings

Because the utopian's worldview was framed around moving toward this perfected future, it helped stimulate the private exertions that add up to social progress.…

— Christine Jennings

They [Oneida people] didn't want to fix problems one at a time. If someone invited them to a feminist convention, their answer would have…

— Christine Jennings

Utopians don't say, 'The world's corrupt, women make less money, people of color are oppressed at every turn.' You don't list the problems of…

— Christine Jennings