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Utopias are often just premature truths. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting. -- Robert Silverberg
Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias. -- Wyndham Lewis
Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. -- Lewis Mumford
All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom. -- Arthur C. Clarke
I play the radio and moon about...and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
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
The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times. -- Patricia Hampl
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians. -- William Ralph Inge
Utopias bore me. I'm interested in constructing messy, complicated societies that are full of flaws and then saying, ooh, this is interesting, let's see what happens if I poke it here. And concurrently with this and the previous point, I'm interested in making up cultures that are different" -- Marie Brennan
We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias. -- Ted Cruz
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries. -- Iain Banks
Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish. -- Michael Ignatieff
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. -- Toni Morrison
We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant. -- Julius Nyerere
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. -- Umberto Eco
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? -- Julio Cortazar
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
I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered. -- Marguerite Young

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