Quotes About Utopia

mieux vaut vivre libre dans un monde ravagé qu'être un esclave dans une utopie pacifiée.

Better to live free in a ravaged world than to be a slave in a peaceful utopia.

Songdo in South Korea was built from scratch along these specifications on land reclaimed from the Yellow Sea at a cost of $35 billion. Labelled the twenty-first century's "high-tech utopia," it is a living city, touted as

Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine.

The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

the privacy to make a scene was something she would miss in Utopia Ã¢â'¬Â¦ [N]ow, surrounded by these watchers, she felt deprived of a basic right Ã¢â'¬Â¦ [to] behave badly if necessary, until [Preston] responded to her grief." And

A human being in perfection ought

La utopía de la codicia

I form withing myself the utopia of a subject free from repression

Progress, The Progress Paradox, Infinite Progress, The Infinite Resource, The Rational Optimist, The Case for Rational Optimism, Utopia for Realists, Mass Flourishing, Abundance, The Improving State of the World, Getting Better, The End of Doom, The Moral Arc, The Big Ratchet, The Great Escape, The Great Surge, The Great Convergence.

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

Communism, in particular, was attractive not so much to oppressed workers, its hypothetical beneficiaries, but to intellectuals—to those whose arrogant pride in intellect assured them they were always right. But the promised utopia never emerged.

If I was the dictator, with my profound understanding of Marx's real intent, and my universal benevolent compassion, uncontaminated by any proclivity toward darkness or sin, I would bring on the socialist Utopia.

You can use words to manipulate the world into delivering what you want. This is what it means to "act politically." This is spin. It's the specialty of unscrupulous marketers, salesmen, advertisers, pickup artists, slogan-possessed utopians and psychopaths

The paintings were not there because Jordan had any totalitarian sympathies, but because he wanted to remind himself of something he knew he and everyone would rather forget: that over a hundred million people were murdered in the name of utopia.

Komünizm kölele?tirilmi? s?n?f?, zengin zâlimleri, Lenin gibi yurt d???nda esirlerin aras?nda ya?ad?ktan sonra, köle edilenlere vadedilen topraklar?n (ütopya, proletarya diktatörlü?ü)

I have seen people define their utopia and then bend their lives into knots trying to make it reality. A left-leaning student adopts a trendy, anti-authority stance and spends the next twenty years working resentfully to topple the windmills of his imagination.

I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now's totalising rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.

L'utopia non è il traguardo ma il punto di partenza. Si immagina e si vuole realizzare un luogo che non c'è ancora.

The government, or as some call it, the justiciary State, as moderator in the social struggle and the impartial administrator of the public interest, is a lie — an illusion, an utopia never achieved and never to be realised.