Community Quote by Norman Rush

“communism was in a rush, it had no time for bourgeois things like the past or the environment.”

— Kapka Kassabova

“I mean, this was the second half of the twentieth century, for pity’s sake, and they still saw communism as the road to utopia.”

— Masaji Ishikawa

“...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which…

— Michael Burawoy

“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

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

“From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.”

— John Gray

“Communism is an interesting thing to do, nothing I ever want to be.”

— Cory Doctorow

“The liberal communist, however, wishes us to believe that we can enjoy the selfish rewards of rampant profiteering and eat our cake too, basking…

— Carl Cederstrom

“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

“A soldier: "I know where heaven is and it's Lithuania ... The women are beautiful, pagan, with a practical view towards sex. Who says…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Communism is a utopian view of history, because the impossible is necessary for its realization. In essence, this requires a high level of social…

— Elmar Hussein

“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