History Quote by Irving Howe

“Must redefine utopia. It isn't the perfect end-product of our wishes, define it so and it deserves the scorn of those who sneer when…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Utopia is the hope that the scattered fragments of good that we come across from time to time in our lives can be put…

— Nick Bostrom

“Those who have aimed at utopia have often been the most effective at unleashing hell on earth.”

— Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

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

“This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia . Utopia is always…

— Brad Warner

“Utopias seem to be much more attainable than one would have believed in other times. And we currently find ourselves faced with a different…

— Aldous Huxley

“We’ll never create a utopia, because it’s impossible to define good without having bad to compare it to. There is no pleasure without pain.…

— Johnny B. Truant

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“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

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

— Haruki Murakami

“Ideology is the enemy of joyful community life, and the most destructive ideology is the belief that creating utopia is possible.”

— Rod Dreher