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Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination. -- George Santayana
We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society. -- John Dewey
The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being. -- Peace Pilgrim
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others. -- Edward Abbey
In an ideal society, mothers and fathers would produce potty- trained, civilized, responsible new citizens while government and corporate leaders would provide a safe, healthy, economically just community. -- Mary Blakely
States can be more or less democratic, and so can socialism. I think any ideal society that exists on a large scale, which is what we most likely have in store for us as a human race, will involve some aspects of socialism. -- Cynthia Kauffman
I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security. -- David Cameron
Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure land rent is in the nature of a 'surplus' which can be taxed heavily without distorting production incentives or efficiency. A land value tax can be called 'the useful tax on measured land surplus'. -- Paul Samuelson
It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the model for an ideal society they seek in America. Replace Allah with God, Mohammad with Jesus, keep the same public and private notions of chastity, sin, salvation, and God's will, and a Christian Republic is born. -- Hooman Majd
To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation. -- R. A. Salvatore
There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal. -- Edward Abbey
For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal. -- George Meyer
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles. -- Murray Bookchin
I have cherished the ideal a democratic and free society . . . it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. -- Nelson Mandela
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology. -- Susan Cain
The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created. -- Noam Chomsky

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