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“If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.”

Ifs Age Consciousness Principles Conflict Absolutes Busy Dawn Melancholy Leisure Utopia Modernism Utopian

Author:Gunter Grass

“Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.”

Utopian Quickness

Book:Making Peace

Source: Making Peace

“TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things.”

Thinking Way Real Sometimes Problem Might Fantasy Tvs Products Extremes Realism Accused Discouraged Brutes Better Ways Real Problems Utopian New Products

Book:The end of nature

Source: The end of nature

“Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.”

Ifs World Firsts Whole Imaginary Vivid Utopian Facets Credible

Book:A Modern Utopia

Source: A Modern Utopia

“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.”

Way Moments Problem Seems Today Humanity Fashion Possibility Survival Problem Solving Speculation Utopian Affirming

Book:Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

Source: Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

“To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an academic but a militant. He is well aware that it is up to him to change the world - no more, no less. History throws him on the brink. Everywhere the hour of the socialist revolution has sounded. Revolution - like landing on the moon - has entered the realm of the immediate and possible. Precise definition of the forms of a socialist society is no longer a utopian scheme. The only utopians are those who close their eyes to these realities.”

“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.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.”

Country Given Force Movement Cost Ideals Inspired Dawn Warning Guru Utopian Elimination Singh Lafayette

Author:Bhagat Singh

“I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.”

Reason Past Community Examining Utopian

Author:Marina Abramovic

“Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two respects: the inventor, the innovator, the exceptional man creates something new and insures continuous progress; the others emulate his work or merely improve their own lot by benefiting from his creativity.”

Men Two Whole Facts Passion Creativity Progress Inequality Something New Exceptional Inventor Innovators Emulate Utopian Egalitarianism

Author:Thomas Steven Molnar

“The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.”

“We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.”

Believe Heart States Form Imagine Cynical Utopia Authoritarianism Utopian Authoritarian Government

Author:Lionel Trilling

“The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.”

“What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward - neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.”

Thinking World Looks Kind Art Interest Modern Painting Civilization Paint Pops Inward Feeding Utopian Pop Art Modern Civilization Cezanne

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“I know it's way too Utopian to think we will all ever just hugand love each other- but proactively dealing with hate could be as important to the future as clean water.”

Thinking Knows Way Important Hate Water Clean Love Each Other Utopian Clean Water

Author:Bobby Sager

“The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.”

Long Fantasy Planets Theory Familiar Ruins Aliens Logical Mars Vague Filling Invasion Celestial Ecological Telescopes Utopian Crimson Alien Invasion Tabula Rasa

Author:David Grinspoon

“All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed in Machiavelli's Prince, a Utopian image of the ideally self-interested despot.”

Believe Ideas Self Problem Deals Noise Traffic Utopian Despots

Book:The Stones of Florence

Source: The Stones of Florence

“I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.”

Thinking Kind Book Ideas Intellectual Just Being Utopian History Books

Author:Richard Rorty

“Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.”

Political France Nostalgic Utopian

Book:The Opium of the Intellectuals

Source: The Opium of the Intellectuals

“Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive.”

Ifs Knows Looks Hard Problem Seems Answers Particular Revolution Function Revolutionary Capitalist Naive Utopian

Author:David Graeber

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