Quotes About Utopia

Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

And I too in Arcadia.

?????????, parádeisos, paradise: it means garden.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.

In these days of wars and rumors of wars, haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight?

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Communism will win.

In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are. Are you in the class that benefits, or are you in the class that's not?

It masks its hatred of dissenters from its utopian ideology in the guise of helping and healing.

Ideology is the enemy of joyful community life, and the most destructive ideology is the belief that creating utopia is possible.

Thus does the Myth of Progress become a justification for exercising dictatorial power to eliminate all opposition. Today, totalitarianism amounts to strict, forced regimentation of the Grand March toward Progress. It is the method by which true believers in Progress aim to keep all of society moving forward toward utopia in lockstep, both in their outward actions and in their innermost thoughts.

Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.

The contradictory nature of the socialist utopias is one explanation of the violence involved in the attempt to impose them: it takes infinite force to make people do what is impossible".

Die letzte Epoche der Utopie hat begonnen, und wie alle Ressourcen wird auch die Zukunft knapp. Am Ende aller Berechnungen ist sie eben keine gänzlich unbekannte mehr. Was kommt, kommt dann nicht als Utopie, sondern als Spekulationsobjekt der Realpolitik, und da die wahren Paradiese ohnehin jene sind, die wir verloren haben, stellen sich viele diese ideale Zukunft schon vor als die Wiederkehr des Vergangenen oder schlicht als Erlösung. So gesehen hat die alte Zukunft keine Zukunft.

The political ideologues of the Hindu Right endorse a history rooted in colonial interpretations and are anxious to make that period of history a Hindu utopia.

So we work for better political and economic systems, knowing that sin precludes any earthly utopia now, but rejoicing in the assurance that the kingdom of shalom that the Messiah has already begun will one day prevail, and the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our Lord.

Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitterness into a sea of socialist sweetness, by progressively pouring into it bottles of social reformist lemonade, presents an idea that is merely more insipid but no less phantastic.

The utopia of love is completion to the point of stillness. The ideal act of love is to contain all.

commitment to spooky, nonempirical entities ranging from human rights to the Word of God to the coming proletarian Utopia.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.