Dangerous Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them…

— Christian de Portzamparc

“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

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

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come…

— Gunter Grass