Utopia famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
Utopias are often just premature truths.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.
-- Carlo Petrini -
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
-- Frank Herbert -
Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.
-- Fredric Jameson -
In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.
-- Gustav Heinemann -
When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.
-- Henry Kuttner -
Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal.
-- Isaiah Berlin -
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
-- Joel Sternfeld -
I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.
-- Jude Law -
We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
-- Marge Piercy -
We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.
-- Mario Vargas Llosa -
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
-- Paul Wellstone -
Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.
-- Rush Limbaugh -
The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
-- Toni Morrison -
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
-- Toni Morrison -
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
-- Will Durant -
Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.
-- Wyndham Lewis -
To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia.
-- Alejandro Castro Espin -
Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involved.
-- Clayton Cramer -
It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.
-- Quentin S. Crisp -
If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it.
-- Rachel Bloom -
Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.
-- Ira Sachs
