Quotes About Utopia

After September 11, I wondered rhetorically midway through a column what we in the West are prepared to die for, and got a convoluted e-mail back from a French professor explaining that the fact that Europeans weren't prepared to die for anything was the best evidence of their superiority: they were building a post-historical utopia - a Europe it would not be necessary to die for. But sometimes you die anyway.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

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?

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

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

Nora wanted to live in a world where no cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had available to her were worlds with humans in them.

There is no panacea, or utopia, there is just love and kindness and trying, amid the chaos, to make things better where we can.

To imagine happiness as the achievement of all our wishes and passions is to confuse the legitimate aspiration to inner fulfillment with a utopia that inevitably leads to frustration.

L'utopie ne signifie pas l'irréalisable, mais l'irréalisé. L'utopie d'hier peut devenir la réalité d'aujourd'hui.

Unraveling proverbs is a suitable puzzle for an old man. I put pieces in order and build up a kind of Utopian castle.

There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen

Sometimes an alternative world is much better than the real one.

Dystopia is just someone's failed attempt at utopia. In a dystopian novel or movie, society is the bad guy, or at least one of the antagonists. In real life Nazi society was as much to blame as Hitler. There is usually a "shift" that  initiates this change, this shift can be anything from hunger ("Soylent Green"), to a tornado (the "Wizard of Oz") to a deadly virus (my story, "Apocalypse Conspiracy).

Why does man insist on trying to make his Utopia in the midst of a battleground?

An ideal society, properly so-called, can be none other than an actual, present, society taken at its truest and best.

The ultimate problem of utopian logic begins with a utilitarian calculus in which everyone will live in perfect harmony once we get rid of any dissenters who don't see as clearly as the collective.

The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

There is no utopia. There never will be. There is only the valiant attempt of each person to live spiritually in a world where spirituality is almost impossible.

When Communism has been realized, everyone will be a novelist.

1. With increasing laziness, a person gets old. 2. Real loneliness is when you feel sick of yourself. 3. Success is driven by hormonal optimism of complexes of naivety. 4. Genius is the utopia of exotic thinking to which people have not grown up. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Due to selfishness, our ideal world is still only in our imagination.

Loneliness is a utopia of serenity, a deep connection with eternity and infinity and reality. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich