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Utopia Quotes

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

Authors on Utopia Quotes: Theodor Adorno Toni Morrison Emile M. Cioran Rush Limbaugh Albert Camus Joel Sternfeld Iain Banks Carlo Petrini Mario Vargas Llosa Paul Wellstone Ira Sachs William Golding Aldous Huxley John Malkovich H. G. Wells Adam Smith Henry Kuttner Thomas B. Macaulay Pedro Almodovar Isaiah Berlin Wyndham Lewis Alejandro Castro Espin Jude Law Olivier Theyskens David Bergland Fredric Jameson Penn Jillette Marge Piercy R. Buckminster Fuller Jimmy Page Karen Joy Fowler Alfred Stieglitz Clayton Cramer
2.
Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.
Alfred Stieglitz

3.
I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.
Carlo Petrini

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To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
Michael Novak

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

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

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

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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.
Fredric Jameson

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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.
Penn Jillette

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

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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.
Jude Law

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Progress is the realization of utopia.
Oscar Wilde

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We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.
Mario Vargas Llosa

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

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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.
Will Durant

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

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

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Utopias are often just premature truths.
Alphonse de Lamartine

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

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No Utopia is Utopia for everyone
Karen Joy Fowler

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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

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

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

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Utopia is not one of the options.
David Bergland

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

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Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.
Albert Camus

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

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

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

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Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involved.
Clayton Cramer

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

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Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
Emile M. Cioran

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

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Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.
H. G. Wells

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Utopia means elsewhere.
John Malkovich

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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.
Gustav Heinemann

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

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

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I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
Cory Doctorow

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

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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.
Olivier Theyskens

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

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

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

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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.
Adam Smith

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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.
Theodor Adorno

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

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

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Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.
Rush Limbaugh

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To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia.
Alejandro Castro Espin