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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. -- Victor Hugo
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. -- Lionel Trilling
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. -- Helen Keller
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Literature is my Utopia -- Helen Keller
Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality. -- Albert Camus
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. -- Theodor Adorno
Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at. -- Oscar Wilde
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Utopia means elsewhere. -- John Malkovich
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia. -- Michael Novak
Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin. -- Gunter Grass
Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist. -- Rush Limbaugh
Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. -- Lewis Mumford
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. -- Toni Morrison
A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists. -- Max Stirner
Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness. -- George Orwell
The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. -- Marguerite Duras
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. -- Ang Lee
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it. -- Nadine Gordimer
You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia. -- Derek Sivers
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin. -- Gunter Grass
In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible. -- Albert Camus
No Utopia is Utopia for everyone -- Karen Joy Fowler
Cycle trails will abound in Utopia. -- H. G. Wells
Utopia is not one of the options. -- David Bergland
The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now. -- Edward Abbey
Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism. -- Emile M. Cioran
I think that Utopia is a theory of human action... -- Cory Doctorow
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements -- W.S. Gilbert
. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull. -- Arthur C. Clarke
When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build. -- Henry Kuttner
Utopia would mean a park - some large, some small - every four or five blocks. -- Thomas Hoving
If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today. -- Thomas Reed
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution. -- Murray Bookchin
Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems. -- Bertrand Russell
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Your mouth on mine our bridge to cross and serve where we would go. Utopia of sensations the flesh could never know. -- Vanna Bonta
If world peace was as important to people as getting tweeted back by their favorite celebrity, we'd live in a blissful Utopia. -- Adam Levine
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
Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting. -- Martin Amis
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward. -- David Lilienthal
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
Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere. -- D. W Brogan
An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it. -- William Wrigley, Jr.
Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now. -- Edward Abbey
Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia. -- Godfried Danneels
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets. -- Kurt Vonnegut
In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for. -- Todd Rundgren
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active. -- Bertrand Russell
When L.A.'s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea. -- Steve Erickson
If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it. -- Adam Smith
It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s. -- Mitch Kapor
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out. -- Thomas Merton
The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out. p. 22 -- Thomas Merton
The best dress for walking is nakedness. But our sad though fascinating world rarely offers the right and necessary combinations of weather and privacy, and even when it does the Utopia never seems to last very long. -- Colin Fletcher
Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all -- William Wordsworth
Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be. -- John Adams
Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken. -- George Herbert
The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless. -- Russell Kirk
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle. -- Christopher Hitchens
The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts. -- Karl Popper
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
Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness -- that is, the improbable -- with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy. -- Emile M. Cioran
Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future. -- Anatole France
Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to do their own thing; the environment which must, to a great extent, be realized first if more particular Utopian visions are to be realized stably. -- Robert Nozick
When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia. -- Martin Amis
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world. -- A. J. P. Taylor
The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text. -- Arthur Koestler
Beyond Bookchin", David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; "We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don't have anything, perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free. -- Marshall Sahlins
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in? -- Margaret Atwood
There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now. -- Jack Carroll
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading! -- Veronica Roth
Neon Future' is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It's embracing the future and looking toward the future in a more optimistic way. -- Steve Aoki
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. -- Gunter Grass
Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia. -- Margaret Atwood
I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff. -- Jason Silva
God has a plan for you - I can promise you that. Your life is sacred. There is and always has been a path for your soul, and if you follow that path, it will lead you to the inner utopia that your soul longs to experience in this lifetime. -- Debbie Ford
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. -- Michael Ignatieff
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now. -- Albert Brooks
I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist. -- Vicente del Bosque
The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands. -- Laura Chinchilla
Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia. -- Veronica Roth
Finland is no utopia. -- Bernie Sanders
Misery motivates, not utopia. -- Karl Marx
we've reached utopia and it sucks -- Richard Tomkins
Progress is the realization of utopia. -- Oscar Wilde
There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia. -- Sandra Cisneros
I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality. -- Carlo Petrini
Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involved. -- Clayton Cramer
The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia. -- Toni Morrison
I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia. -- Jimmy Page
I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship. -- Pedro Almodovar
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience. -- Roland Barthes
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. -- Paul Wellstone
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. -- Joel Sternfeld
When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world. -- Derek Sivers
Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
A utopia cannot, by deï¬nition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring. -- Lars Svendsen
Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture. -- Theodor Adorno
The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States. -- Peter T. King
The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States. -- Peter T. King
The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey. -- Jeremy Rifkin
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. -- Marguerite Young
The fact there is no route-map to utopia does not mean that there are no routes to more accessible destinations. -- Colin Ward
I hold to nothing but envisioning international peace and utopia. We all have many more things in common than not. -- Roseanne Barr
Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering. -- Peter Bergen

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