Nature Quote by Frédéric Bastiat

“There are no laws, only habits of existence so deep that to break them would require unmaking the world that contains them.”

— PIERRE LAGRENAT

“How is it that the strange idea of making the law produce what it does not contain—prosperity, in a positive sense, wealth, science, religion—should…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“A utopia is an ideally perfect place. Who's ideas are we going by?”

— Felicity Mikkel Nacht

“Whenever utopians present the substance of their wishes and fight to make them actual, a fair number of their dreams will often come true,…

— Mark Greif

“But utopias don't exist, of course, anywhere in any world. Like alchemy or perpetual motion.”

— Haruki Murakami

The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown.…

— Samuel Adams

“It may be that the best we can hope for when it comes to utopias is that they be held at arm's length and…

— Edward Rothstein

“That we are utopians is well known. So utopian are we that we go the length of believing that the revolution can and ought…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“The problem with any utopia is that it discounts the vile ability of humans to turn it into the same ugly world they create…

— Bobby Adair

“A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“To-day well, my Utopia, if ever I framed one, would be a land where the laws demanded that people should be vicious. Then one…

— Edward Verrall Lucas

“If utopia was illusion hypostasized, communism, going still further, will be illusion decreed, imposed: a challenge to the omnipresence of evil, an obligatory optimism.…

— Emil Cioran