“ 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. ”
- Emma Goldman- Copy
“ The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. ”
- Galileo Galilei- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Lionel Trilling- Copy
“ Little deeds of kindness, little words of love; Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above. ”
- Julia A. Fletcher Carney- Copy
“ In the nine heavens are eight Paradises;Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. ”
- William R. Alger- Copy
“ Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias — boredom. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
“ He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state if they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation… ”
- William Golding- Copy
“ I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another… of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next… of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin. ”
- Gunther Grass- Copy
“ If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it. ”
- Nadine Gordimer- Copy
“ The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
“ Human beings will be happier — not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie — but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
“ No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
“ Theirs was a civilization in which the initial difficulties had long since been overcome. The untroubled peace, the unmeasured plenty, the steady health, the large good will and smooth management which ordered everything, left nothing to overcome. It was like a pleasant family in an old established perfectly-run country place. ”
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman- Copy
“ The ground-root folly of this piteous philanthropyis thinking to distribute indivisibles,and make equality in things incommensurable:forged under such delusions, all Utopiasare castles in the air or counsels of despair. ”
- Robert Bridges- Copy
“ The weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether his share will be delivered by motor-car or balloon. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
“ The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle. ”
- Christopher Hitchens- Copy
“ I will now confess my own utopia. I devoutly believe in the reign of peace and in the gradual advent of some sort of socialistic equilibrium. The fatalistic view of the war function is to me nonsense, for I know that war-making is due to definite motives and subject to prudential checks and reasonable criticisms, just like any other form of enterprise… ”
- William James- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Norman O. Brown- Copy
“ But the Modern Utopia must not be static but kinetic, must shape not as a permanent state but as a hopeful stage, leading to a long ascent of stages. Nowadays we do not resist and overcome the great stream of things, but rather float upon it. We build now not citadels, but ships of state. ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
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