Utopian Quotes
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The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.
We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for a monstrous world without gender.
Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.
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.
Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.
The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.
In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble.
When you have a vision of where you need to go, it sounds utopian. But when you get to the tipping point, your understanding switches.
I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
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.
It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.
Either we abandon the utopian globalism of open borders and 'ally-ally-in-free' immigration or we lose the war on terrorism and our freedoms with it.
Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.
Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.
I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.
There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.
Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.
There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.
I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.
Michel Aflaq - is bad poetry wrapped in the guise of utopian politics, or great poetry wrapped in the guise of horrible politics.
Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.
Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.
Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.
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.
Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.
Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.
The idea that Bentham and Mill were maximizers is the greatest stretch of all. They were progressivists, committed to improving the societies in which they lived, not utopian maximizers.
It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.
It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.
Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.
Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.
The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races.