Quotes About Utopia

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Immortality may be impossible, but imagine what humanity could learn if we all lived 700 years. We could travel deep into utopia and beyond.

With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.

His aim was the creation of self sufficient small towns,really very nice towns if you were docile and had no plans of your own and did not mind spending your life with others with no plans of their own. As in all Utopias, the right to have plans of any significance belonged only to the planner in charge. - discussing Ebenezer Howards' Garden City

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.

Utopias and dystopias can exist side by side, even in the same moment. Which one you're in depends entirely on your point of view.

I lived in a kind of dream of communism.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.

To write a letter is to send a message to the future; to speak of the present with an addressee who is not there, knowing nothing about how that person is (in what spirits, with whom) while we write and, above all, later: while reading over what we have written. Correspondence is the utopian form of conversation because it annihilates the present and turns the future into the only possible place for dialogue.

And those are the people we don't like," Julia said. "The enemy of the socialist future. Which is just around the corner, isn't it, sweetie? And always will be, forever and forever, amen. God forbid we should ever achieve some kind of prelapsarian utopia on earth because then you would have to live your life instead of just complaining about it.

dystopia, a reliably clean, well-lighted place.

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.

In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone suddenly turned into a saviour who wanted either to annihilate the obsolete world order or to establish a utopia. Naturally, there were writers among those who went mad. The fact that they had knowledge did not exempt intellectuals: there is madness everywhere. When one loses control over one's self, the result is madness.

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

But perhaps it's a delusion for each generation to think that they know better than their parents. If this were true, than parental wisdom would increase with time like the processing power of computer chips, refining over generations, and we'd how be living in some utopia of openness and understanding. (pag.288)

I'm the cream Of the great utopia dream. And you're in the gleam In the depths of your banker's spleen.

The road to utopia is paved with the corpses of freedom lovers

Sartre said Hell is other people. I'd say Hell is other people's utopia.

When you try to build Heaven on earth you end up building ghetto's of Hell

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.