Age Quote by Gunter Grass

I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and…

— Gunter Grass

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

— Gunter Grass

“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born…

— Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans

'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I…

— Veronica Roth

“People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.”

— A.E. Samaan

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

Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to realize their…

— Robert Nozick

“Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.”

— zal

Wherever you go, whether it be a college campus or the New York Times or ABC News or Venezuela or Cuba or the former…

— Andrew Breitbart

I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its…

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration;…

— Margaret Thatcher