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Quotes About Utopia

virtual worlds can be better than the actual world. They can be more moral, more just, more progressive, more empathetic, and more accommodating of difference. And if they can be, shouldn't they be?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What I believe to my very core is that virtual worlds can be better than the actual world. They can be more moral, more just, more progressive, more empathetic, and more accommodating of difference. And if they can be, shouldn't they be?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
There must be something better than this world, and the world must be better than this.
~ Brian Francis Slattery
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.
~ Brooks Atkinson
I harbored in my mind a sort of utopia about 'an age of genius' that supposedly existed in my life once upon a time, not in any calendar year but on a level above chronology, an age when everything blazed with godly colors and one took in the whole sky with a single breath, like a gulp of pure ultramarine.
~ Bruno Schulz
There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the dreams of writers and artists through the ages: that people might cooperatively use the treasures of the earth to make life better for everyone, not just a few.
~ Howard Zinn
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
~ Iain M. Banks
There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist.
~ Justine Kurland
In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.
~ Stuart Pearce
Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain … empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.
~ Steven Erikson
In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice.
~ Subcomandante Marcos
The promise of socialism is a lie.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
To me, personally, an ideal society would be a world where only I and those I care for exist.
~ Varg Vikernes
I feel like every artist has a place in their mind, this place where they exist artistically. And I just want to take people to mine, and my place is called Loveland. In Loveland, there's no war, and there's peace.
~ Raheem DeVaughn
More than ever he longed to be in some world where personal ambition was not the only recognized form of progress—such, perhaps, as might have been the case at some time or other in the silvery globe then shining upon him.
~ Thomas Hardy
I am convinced that those societies which live without government enjoy in their gen'l mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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
they wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. - utopia
~ Thomas Moore
Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy
~ Kenneth Rexroth
Material made of spirit is the luxurious border where reality communicates with utopia.
~ César Aira
You've got me believing in a great good place.
~ Gayle Forman
The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression.
~ Gene Sharp
A heaven on earth.
~ John Milton
Golden ages have no shade of grey.
~ Susan Neiman