Quotes About Utopia

think the Princess should read the New Testament both night and morning, and also certain selected portions of the Old Testament. She must become fully conversant with the gospels. She should, I believe also study Plutarch's Enchiridion, Seneca's Maxims, and of course Plato and Cicero." He glanced at his friend. "I suggest that Sir Thomas More's Utopia would provide good reading.

As a child, books had been his passageway into foreign, sometimes utopian worlds. Carnival wasn't just an incarnation of that passageway in reality; it was everything that lay on the other side, where the only thing that mattered was the moment, and millions of people were able to inhabit that moment with ease and, predominantly, with bliss.

utopia, a place that has known only peace and harmony and balance

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.

The story is a post-utopia, a somewhat revolutionary form when it was published—and one reader-critic (Jamie Todd Rubin) called it "the first generally 'post-Singularity' story ever written in science fiction" (if we had not lost our faith in the American utopian vision, it might have had imitators instead of the wave after wave of dystopias we did get—and continue to get).

In other words, in the intellectual conflict between Utopians and Dystopians, the mathematical odds actually are on the side of Utopians. Our human world is so information-rich (coherent) that it is almost certain to "collapse" into even higher coherence, not into chaos and self-destruction.

Must redefine utopia. It isn't the perfect end-product of our wishes, define it so and it deserves the scorn of those who sneer when they hear the word. No. Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever. Compare it to the present course of history. If you can.

We are making a better way to live. This was the myth, they had all grown up with it.

What use was utopia without joy, after all? What was the point of all their striving if it did not include the laughter of the young?

But the problem of utopia, of collective meaning, is to find an individual meaning. —Fredric Jameson, An American Utopia

There seemed to be no horses nor animals of any kind; the men carried things around in little green carts, which they pushed before them. Everyone seemed happy and contented and prosperous.

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative...

I play the radio and moon about...and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.

There's a sense in American cinema: you want to portray an ideal world. You want to portray a Utopia. That's good- dreams for a better world, to advocate for something better, yes. But if you look at my movies, they are exploring today's shadows.

Call me a skeptic, but I've always thought that it takes more than organic vegetables and talking circles to make an ideal society. Raven

What distinguishes the various members of the ideological family descended from humanism and the Enlightenment, liberal, socialist, communist, or anarchist, is not the gentle anarchy which is the utopia of all of them, but the methods of achieving it.

To a religious movement the present is a place of exile, a vale of tears leading to the heavenly kingdom; to a social revolution it is a mean way station on the road to Utopia; to a nationalist movement it is an ignoble episode preceding the final triumph.

A chaste generation would restore Paradise.

La utopía es el principio de todo progreso y el diseño de un futuro mejor.

l'idea di agathotopia di James Meade,

I want a house that's mobile but stationary, situated in a safe place without borders, where the people are peace-loving.