Quotes About Utopia

He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?

There was no boss-class, no menial-class, no beggars, no prostitutes, no lawyers, no priests, no boot-licking, no cap-touching.

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.

If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia?… I think that by retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and…toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable.

All favourable Utopias seem to be alike in postulating perfection while being unable to suggest happiness.

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which WEALTH, in the sense of personal pos- sessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while POWER remained in the hands of a small privileged caste.

Animal Farm is a warning to every reader. Beware the utopia; beware the perfect solution and the easy slogan; beware those who claim to know what is best for you; beware bombast and dogma; beware the death of doubt; beware those who do not practice what they preach. Beware the chosen. Beware the one and only true path.

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache.

Il paradiso terrestre era caduto in discredito proprio quando la sua realizzazione era diventata possibile.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. John Adams, U.S. President

All utopias are depressing because they leave no room for chance, for difference, for the 'miscellaneous'.

She remembered the promise of an antiseptic future: domed cities and artificial weather. Somehow this was supposed to be good. Anna O. knew that hers was the last generation to believe the future would be better.

What's it like where they live?" "It's everything you want it to be.

That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and the least religious people of their time all drawn to very similar visions of utopia?

We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can see.

paradise cannot be constructed out of concrete.

Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect.

A dream, a wild dream of removing ourselves from the cares and sorrows of this miserable world and creating a world of our own. A long shot, yes, but who's to say it can't happen?

populismo es el uso demagógico que un líder carismático hace de la legitimidad democrática para prometer la vuelta de un orden tradicional o el acceso a una utopía posible y, logrado el triunfo, consolidar un poder personal al margen de las leyes, las instituciones y las libertades.

En conclusión, podemos decir que la madurez personal es una aspiración, una meta, un objetivo a medio-largo plazo, pero al que rara vez se llega de forma total. Hemos de ser realistas. Las utopías son malas compañeras de viaje. La madurez supone un cierto estado de plenitud que se va alcanzando mediante un proceso de crecimiento gradual y paulatino.

Cómo diablos construir ese paraíso, si la vileza humana mata en embrión cualquier utopía?

Under Marxism] Christ the Redeemer is replaced by the steam engine as the promise of the realm to come.

In a perfect world the current laws would not apply.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.