Quotes About Utopia

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

The Mishnah is from no one special in utopia, to whom it may concern.

Everything must belong to everybody and must present the hypothesis of a world without god, without king, without government, without masters.

Ascolta, soltanto quando governeremo una città, aboliremo l'uso del denaro, il possesso privato dei beni e le differenze di censo, allora la luce della nostra fede sarà così potente da illuminare tutte le genti.

A Perfect World. Kevin Costner

Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.

This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.

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.

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

What's Ixion? she'd asked him. He'd laid his face close to hers, whispering so their parents couldn't hear. Imagine a place where there are no Elders. No rules. No punishment. Only music and laughter and freedom. That's Ixion, Ret. That's me. Soon after,

This was London, in all its filth and glory. Nostalgic for the past, while yearning to cast off the chains of bygone ages and step forward into the bright utopia of the future. Proud of its achievements, yet despising its own flaws. A monster in both size and nature, that would consume the unwary and spit them out again, in forms unrecognizable and undreamt. London, the monster city.

What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

cómo voy a creer / dijo el fulano que la utopía ya no existe si vos / mengana dulce osada / eterna si vos / sos mi utopía.

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.

Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average.

I offered them Utopia, but they fought for the right to live in Hell.

Paradoxically, as the utopia metastasizes and the society ossifies, elections become less relevant. More and more decisions are made by masterminds and their experts, who substitute their self-serving and dogmatic judgments—which are proclaimed righteous and compassionate—for the individual's self-interests and best interests.

Statist, liberty is not a blessing but the enemy. It is not possible to achieve Utopia if individuals are free to go their own way.