Concepts Quote by Fredric Jameson

Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.

— Ira Sachs

Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic,…

— Emile M. Cioran

There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider to be…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

— Cory Doctorow

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

— Albert Camus

Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to do their…

— Robert Nozick

Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

— Anonymous

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled…

— Emma Goldman

Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises…

— William Golding

Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide,…

— Jack Carroll

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

— Geraldine James