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“We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.”

Needs Self Cities Special Serious Unique Privacy Traffic Citizenship Imaginative Utopia Ecological Assessment Programmes Ingenious Special Relationship Plasticity Privacy And Freedom

Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic

“The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.”

States Age Past Class Degrees Myth Assumption Superiority Utopia Populist

Book:The Age of Reform

Source: The Age of Reform

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

Home Heaven Utopia

Book:Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader

Source: Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader

“Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to do their own thing; the environment which must, to a great extent, be realized first if more particular Utopian visions are to be realized stably.”

People Ifs Firsts May Vision Environment Particular Experiments Utopia Utopian

Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia

Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia

“Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.”

Materials Chiefs Construction Utopia

Book:The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Kind Ends Problem Spiritual Bits Models Critical Libertarian Winner Outcomes Crush Socialist Committees Moderation Utopia

Author:Jaron Lanier

“The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (excluding Newsweek) trumpet the benefits of hybrids and Ford and Toyota plan to lead the nation into a low-powered, high-mileage hybrid Utopia, the multitudes remain loyal to the gas-guzzling family bus in the driveway.”

“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.”

Ifs World Self Facts Wanted Order Loses Results Century Intellectual Madness Mad Elites Utopia Saviour Obsolete World Order

Author:Gao Xingjian

“From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia but were rather the most realistic policy there is and the most likely to improve the fate of each and every person.”

Humans Persons Dream America Justice Democracy Fate Rights Mankind Policy Prove Human Rights Realistic American Dream Utopia

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.”

Humans Has Beens Change Race Vision Conditions Possibility Human Race Daring Utopia Lofty Utopian Great Change New Possibilities

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.”

History Crosses Prosperity Zone Racist Utopia Plantations Brothels

Author:Niall Ferguson

“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”

Ifs Men Wisdom Political Politics Leader Economy Fate Program Leaving Enormous Liberalism Oblivion Utopia Political Leaders Initiate

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.”

Age Past Lost Social Break Atheism Source Ancient Appearance Positive Atheism Mythology Golden Revolutionary Paradise Feds Engineers Utopia Legendary Blueprints Golden Age

Book:the god that failed

Source: the god that failed

“The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.”

Isolation Utopia Separateness

Author:Toni Morrison

“Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.”

Want Groups Style Offering Utopia Bin Laden Taliban

Author:Peter Bergen

“I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.”

People Ifs Needs Giving Trying Important Dream Fighting Winning Easy Sells Fake Utopia Pipe You Can Win Pipe Dreams

Author:Immortal Technique

“(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.”

Done Facts Results Destiny Doubt Plans Failure Politician Projects Intellectual Europe Finals Scales Planning Vanity Inevitable Classic Damage Monument Utopia Programmes Utopian Unified

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.”

“Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944

“Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.”

Needs Humans Made Facts Earth Social Too Much Bears Expectations Institutions Abandon Expecting Utopia Neurosis Marriage Love Social Institutions Pandas

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.”

World Want Feels Should Littles Art Company Expression Norm Utopia How You Feel

Author:Derek Sivers

“Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.”

Thinking Social Profound Disaster Revolutionary Social Change Utopia Anticipate

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'?”

Should Wells May Calling Definitions Feminist Silly Utopia Extremist Militant

Author:Meghan Daum

“Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.”

Years Kids School Past Opportunity Childhood Habit Very Good Holiday Candy Doing Nothing Utopia Bedtime Unlearn Good Habits

Book:Dad Is Fat

Source: Dad Is Fat

“What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.”

Years Book Real Black White Interesting Truth Is Twenties Misery Utopia Black Or White Real Truth

Author:Albert Brooks

“Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.”

People Ends Form Political Differences Land Promise Madness Crisis Remains Endure Temptation Genocide Utopia Multicultural Multicultural Society Political Promises

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.”

World Writing Mean Character Stories Found Interesting Fiction Plans Finished I Realized Compelling Dystopian Utopia Divergent Utopian Dystopian Fiction

Author:Veronica Roth

“The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.”

Source: The province of the heart

“Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.”

Social Essentials Diversity Investing Defects Utopia Social Systems

Book:History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

“Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.”

People Cities Utopia

Author:Joel Sternfeld

“We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.”

Ends Holocaust Utopia Mistrust

Book:Making Waves: Essays 1962-93

Source: Making Waves: Essays 1962-93

“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.”

World Humans Desire Imagination Effort Alive Ought Active Finished Human Life Utopia

Book:Political Ideals

Source: Political Ideals

“Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.”

Men Humans Ideas Self Natural Institutions Destroyed Substance Wilderness Length Transformed Surroundings Utopia Starks Thesis Adjusting Implied

Book:The Great Transformation

Source: The Great Transformation

“I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.”

Thinking Should Trying Jobs Turns Nations Enemy Military Building Citizens Murder Down And Democratic Iraq Engaged Hunts Isis Utopia American Citizens Jihad Switzerland Nation Building

Author:Ted Cruz

“[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way to get rid of all those hours spent listening to bad call-centre music? Do policemen, academics, teachers and doctors really need to spend half their time filling in forms? Or can we imagine another world?”

World Way Needs Should Form Hours Challenges Half Accepting Teacher Imagine Listening Offers Doctors Inevitable Centre Bureaucracy Filling Utopia Policemen Another World Filling In

Author:Gillian Tett

“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.”

World Action Models This Life Relative Our Actions Utopia

Author:Gustav Heinemann

“Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.”

Knows World Home Reality Lost Heaven Invisible Realms Continents Utopia Other Worlds Talk To Me Don't Talk To Me

Book:Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader

Source: Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader

“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”

Years Children Light Age Death Mother Four Wife Son Huge Birth Kings Daughter Hundred Died Heavy Score Forty Four Years Utopia Suffocating Birth Of A Child

Author:Francois Rabelais

“The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.”

People Real Past Future Deeds Bones Graves Meat Utopia

Author:Patricia Hampl

“I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings of labor-saving machinery and invention, rather than siphon them off into the pools of watered securities, it will by that process keep distribution and production in balance and go as far toward Utopia as our poor human natures will go or be driven.”

“Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?”

People Problem Faces Fit Sticks Utopia

Author:Margaret Atwood

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

World Madness Multitudes Threatened Utopia Suffocating

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.”

Needs Vision Fantasy Source Becoming Rose Optimistic Combat Cynicism Associates Utopia Monstrous Improbable Grotesque Coerce

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements”

Land Movement England Improvement Utopia Enterprising

Book:The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

“Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.”

People Ifs Knows Littles Problem Light Numbers Huge Right Now Utopia Dystopia Huge Numbers

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”

Humans Might Literature Virtue Projects Prison Practicals Soil Portions Founders Site Virgins Utopia Colony Cemetery Utopian Virtue And Happiness

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.”

Ifs Humans Wish Principles Ought Conflict Fundamentals Affair Negotiation Misunderstanding Utopia Pointless Fundamental Principles

Author:Umberto Eco

“Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure.”

Wells Christian Religion Belief Heaven Christianity Century Movement Revolution Perspective Rose Come Up Secure Communism Classic Rome Resurrection Utopia Buckets Agitation Athens

Author:Will Durant

“There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider to be ideal societies; translating this into the language of mathematics, we might say that utopias bear a + sign. The other feature, organically growing out of the content, is to be found in the form: a utopia is always static; it is always descriptive and has no, of almost no, plot dynamics.”

Inspirational Art Two Might Form Found Literature Language Growing Bears Ideals Mathematics Paint Features Plot Translate Utopia Static Dynamics Generic Ideal Society

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be.”

Should Book Would Be Law Nations Religious Members Paradise Regions Founding Utopia Founding Fathers Christian Founding Fathers Religious Christianity From Founding Fathers Christian Heritage Christian Patriotic Patriotic Religious Law Books

Book:The Portable John Adams

Source: The Portable John Adams

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