Quotes About Utopia

Speech, etiquette, behavior, thinking, everything is mechanized and everything works automatically, everything is carefully programmed for the norm, everything is a formality. The world around us becomes soulless, a world in which there is a utopia of laziness thanks to machines and mechanical thinking.

The real wonder of America's achievement, he professed, was that the "world's largest capitalist country" had "come closest to the ideal of prosperity for all in a classless society." These words strike at the heart of the matter. For Nixon, the United States was more than a land of plenty. Democratic in its collective soul, it had nearly achieved a kind of utopia.

Fred Singer gave his game away when he denied the reality of the ozone hole, suggesting that people involved in the issue "probably [have] … hidden agendas of their own—not just to 'save the environment' but to change our economic system … Some of these 'coercive utopians' are socialists, some are technology-hating Luddites; most have a great desire to regulate—on as large a scale as possible."33

If only we'd been born into a kind world...without anxiety...without fear. If we could live without hurting other people...and without being hurt. A world in which we always did what was right. If only we could have found a shortcut to the kind world we all hope for.

A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.

Wir wollen hier auf Erden schon das Himmelreich errichten'. Aber welches denn Heine? Das sozialistische Paradies, von dem sie in der Konsumgesellschaft träumen, oder die Konsumgesellschaft, von der sie im sozialistischen Paradies träumen?

Heinrich Heine: "Wir wollen hier auf Erden schon das Himmelreich errichten." Aber welches denn, Heine? Das sozialistische Paradies, von dem sie in der Konsumgesellschaft träumen, oder die Konsumgesellschaft, von der sie im sozialistischen Paradies träumen.

Heinrich Heine: "We want to establish the kingdom of heaven here on earth." But which one, Heine? The socialist paradise they dream of in consumer society, or the consumer society they dream of in socialist paradise.

The modern clergy declare that Christianity seeks to solve earthly problems—thereby confusing it with utopia.

El progresista sueña en la estabulación científica de la humanidad.

Don't you know that we must always have a place where we never go but where we think we'd be happy if we did?

Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.

È nelle pieghe di quelle attività considerate superflue, infatti, che possiamo percepire lo stimolo a pensare un mondo migliore, a coltivare l'utopia di poter attenuare, se non cancellare, le diffuse ingiustizie e le penose disuguaglianze che pesano (o dovrebbero pesare) come un macigno sulle nostre coscienze.

I don't like most Utopia stories because I don't believe them for a moment. It seems inevitable that my Utopia would be someone else's hell.

We all desire the future to turn out more happily than I have figured it. In particular we desire our present civilization to advance steadily toward some kind of Utopia. The thought that it may decay and collapse, and that all its spiritual treasure may be lost irrevocably, is repugnant to us. Yet this must be faced as at least a possibility.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

those who preach the gospel to themselves are increasingly hopeful. That is because the gospel culminates in a new heaven and a new earth—a future utopia that God has promised to bring to pass. It is about "Paradise restored." The future for every Christian is an eternity with no crying, nor mourning, nor pain.

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

Marx reproduced medieval and Reformation millenarian expectations in his utopia of a classless, stateless society.

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?

An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.

And for many, politics has become gestural: it is about refusing to engage with power on power's own terms; about action, not ideas; about the symbolic control of territory to create islands of utopia.

Con la infotecnología (o tecnología de la información), sin embargo, grandes tramos del proyecto socialista utópico han pasado a ser posibles:

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. observed of most white people in the nation: "They believe that American society is essentially hospitable to fair play and to steady growth toward a middle-class Utopia embodying racial harmony. But unfortunately, this is a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity.