Commentary Quote by Emily Haines

With 'Utopia,' definitely it's more the idea of trying to put across a message rather than just entertaining the audience. It's entertaining as well,…

— Adeel Akhtar

“Utopias bore me. I'm interested in constructing messy, complicated societies that are full of flaws and then saying, ooh, this is interesting, let's see…

— Marie Brennan

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia -…

— D. W Brogan

There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready…

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Utopian movements produce dystopias.

— Dennis Prager

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

— Emile M. Cioran

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

— Robert Silverberg

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with…

— Fredric Jameson

How do we get utopian thinking in a dystopian world? These days we aren't talking to each other - we're screaming and trying to…

— Carolee Schneemann

I think 'Utopia' is incredibly relevant and very frightening, and very important.

— Geraldine James

I'm a utopianist.

— Reuven Rivlin

If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict,…

— Veronica Roth