Community Quote by Marie Brennan

“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

“Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath”

— Kameron Hurley

“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

“Great cultures bring problems and disagreements to the surface and solve them well, and they love imagining and building great things that haven’t been…

— Ray Dalio

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

— Felicity Mikkel Nacht

“There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.”

— Floriano Martins

“And then I realized that my utopia was a terrible place, and no one should ever put me in charge of creating a perfect…

— Veronica Roth

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

“we've reached utopia and it sucks”

— Richard Tomkins

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

“In a world obsessed with borders, I found my home not in places, but in the spaces between them, where cultures converge and identities…

— Camellia Yang

“No other society in the history of the world has searched so long for a meaningful cultural identity and failed in its quest as…

— Lester D. Langley