Utopia Quotes

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.

Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal.

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.

As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.

Progress is the realization of utopia.

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

I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

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

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it.

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

Utopia is not one of the options.

Utopias are often just premature truths.

When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

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.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

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

Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involved.

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

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.

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

Utopia means elsewhere.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.

Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.

I love to be in New York. And I think anybody who's a designer, who says they're doing an urban collection, thinks about the streets of New York. I cannot do an urban collection thinking of Bangkok. Or Mexico. To me, it's totally instant, totally connected with what attracts me these days. But this resurgence of a modern, cool way of being dressed is something that stimulates me and is totally right for me. Even now I don't like to show something that is some futuristic utopia.

I hold to nothing but envisioning international peace and utopia. We all have many more things in common than not.

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

The really damaging thing is that the objectives, the goals of the people on the left are not possible. There is no utopia.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

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